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In Nepal, people are dying for social media! 19 people lost their lives trying to get Facebook back
In a dramatic reversal, Nepal has lifted the nationwide social media blackout imposed last week after it sparked massive youth protests and caused at least 19 deaths, according to local media. The dec...
Xi Jinping and the Chinese APT’s Ambition
The post-COVID macro political movements, including ongoing conflicts, have prompted a majority of states to shift their medium- to long-term political objectives. Clearly, a paradigm shift has been v...
Salesloft Cyber Attack: Chatbot Drift Temporarily Disabled
Salesloft announced that it would temporarily deactivate its AI-powered chatbot Drift on September 5, after several companies were hit by a massive supply chain attack. The incident resulted in the ma...
Discover the Dark Web: Access, Secrets, and Helpful Links to the Onion Network
The Dark Web is a part of the internet that cannot be reached with standard browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge). To access it, you need to use specific tools like the Tor Browser, which guarantees anonym...
AI A2 detected 102 0-day bugs and created exploits in Android apps for $1.77
Artificial intelligence systems have been criticized for creating confusing vulnerability reports and inundating open-source developers with irrelevant complaints. But researchers at Nanjing Universit...
$16 billion in stolen Apple, Meta, and Google credentials up for sale for $121,000
The Darklab team, Red Hot Cyber‘s community of threat intelligence experts, has identified an ad on the dark web marketplace “Tor Amazon”, the criminal counterpart of the popular e-commerce site on th...
Red Hot Cyber Conference 2026: Sponsorships Open for the Fifth Edition in Rome
The Red Hot Cyber Conference has become a regular event for the Red Hot Cyber community and for anyone working in or interested in the world of digital technologies and cybersecurity. The fifth editio...
Hexstrike AI unleashes chaos! Zero-days exploited in record time
The release of Hexstrike-AI marks a turning point in the cybersecurity landscape. The framework, billed as a next-generation tool for red teams and researchers, is capable of orchestrating over 150 sp...
LockBit 5.0: Signs of a New and Possible “Rebirth”?
LockBit represents one of the longest-running and most structured ransomware gangs of recent years, with a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model that has profoundly impacted the criminal ecosystem. Fol...
The KING of DDoS! Cloudflare blocks a monstrous 11.5 terabit-per-second attack.
The record for the largest DDoS attack ever recorded in June 2025 has already been broken. Cloudflare said it recently blocked the largest DDoS attack in history, which peaked at 11.5 Tbps. “Cloudflar...
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In a dramatic reversal, Nepal has lifted the nationwide social media blackout imposed last week after it sparked massive youth protests and caused at least 19 deaths, according to local media. The dec...

The post-COVID macro political movements, including ongoing conflicts, have prompted a majority of states to shift their medium- to long-term political objectives. Clearly, a paradigm shift has been v...

Salesloft announced that it would temporarily deactivate its AI-powered chatbot Drift on September 5, after several companies were hit by a massive supply chain attack. The incident resulted in the ma...

The Dark Web is a part of the internet that cannot be reached with standard browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge). To access it, you need to use specific tools like the Tor Browser, which guarantees anonym...

Artificial intelligence systems have been criticized for creating confusing vulnerability reports and inundating open-source developers with irrelevant complaints. But researchers at Nanjing Universit...
BadUSB. Webcam Spyware: The Lenovo Bug Threatening Millions of PCs
Win-DoS Epidemic: New DoS and DDoS Attacks Start with Microsoft Windows
ElectroSim: The Ethical Hackers’ Virtual Environment for Studying OT/ICS Security Flaws
Windows 12 and 13: goodbye mouse and keyboard! Will user interaction be voice-only?
Drones under fire! A NATO country orders a 100 kW laser for air defense.
James Cameron: AI can cause devastation like Skynet and Terminator

BadUSB. Webcam Spyware: The Lenovo Bug Threatening Millions of PCs
Redazione RHC - August 11th, 2025
Researchers at Eclypsium have identified dangerous vulnerabilities in the Lenovo 510 FHD and Lenovo Performance FHD webcams that can be transformed into BadUSB attack devices. The issue, dubbed BadCam, was...

Win-DoS Epidemic: New DoS and DDoS Attacks Start with Microsoft Windows
Redazione RHC - August 11th, 2025
During the security conference DEF CON33, a team of industry specialists, Yair and Shahak Morag, from SafeBreach Labs, presented a novel category of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks they've dubbed the "Win-DoS...

ElectroSim: The Ethical Hackers’ Virtual Environment for Studying OT/ICS Security Flaws
Redazione RHC - August 11th, 2025
ElectroSim Industrialis an educational virtual machine that simulates the operating platform of a typical electric utility, combining consumption control, industrial monitoring, and essential cybersecurity concepts. The environment is designed for...

Windows 12 and 13: goodbye mouse and keyboard! Will user interaction be voice-only?
Redazione RHC - August 10th, 2025
What will Windows 12 and even Windows 13 look like? David Weston, Microsoft vice president of enterprise and operating systems security, believes that in the future, Windows systems will most...

Drones under fire! A NATO country orders a 100 kW laser for air defense.
Redazione RHC - August 10th, 2025
Australian company Electro Optic Systems Holdings Limited (EOS)has signed the world's first export contract for a 100-kilowatt laser air defense system capable of destroying swarms of drones. The deal is...

James Cameron: AI can cause devastation like Skynet and Terminator
Redazione RHC - August 10th, 2025
"The Skynet military defense system will go live on August 4, 1997. It will begin to self-educate, learning at an exponential rate, and will become self-aware at 2:14 a.m. on...
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