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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...
150 Malicious Firefox Extensions Stole $1 Million in Cryptocurrency
Over 60s, Under Fire! Hackers Stole $700 Million from Seniors
EDRs are still going offline! Threats are growing with EDRKillShifter’s offspring.
GPT-5 Hacked in 24 Hours. Experts Find Surprising Weaknesses
XVideos and Bang Bros under fire from Florida for age verification. Protection or censorship?
Did you double-click WinRAR? Congratulations! You’ve been compromised

150 Malicious Firefox Extensions Stole $1 Million in Cryptocurrency
Redazione RHC - August 10th, 2025
Koi Security analysts have discovered the GreedyBear malware campaign active in the Mozilla add-on store. 150 malicious Firefox extensions stole over $1 million worth of cryptocurrency from users. The fraudulent...

Over 60s, Under Fire! Hackers Stole $700 Million from Seniors
Redazione RHC - August 10th, 2025
Americans over 60 lost a staggering $700 million to online fraud in 2024, the highest figure ever recorded by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The new Consumer Protection Data Spotlight...

EDRs are still going offline! Threats are growing with EDRKillShifter’s offspring.
Redazione RHC - August 10th, 2025
A new tool for disabling EDR systems has emerged in the cybercriminal community, which Sophos experts believe to be an extension of the EDRKillShifter utility. Its use has already been...

GPT-5 Hacked in 24 Hours. Experts Find Surprising Weaknesses
Redazione RHC - August 9th, 2025
After Grok-4 was cracked in two days, GPT-5 was defeated in just 24 hours by the same researchers. Almost simultaneously, the SPLX (formerly SplxAI) testing team declared: "GPT-5 is crude...

XVideos and Bang Bros under fire from Florida for age verification. Protection or censorship?
Redazione RHC - August 9th, 2025
In recent weeks, we've discussed at length the storm that erupted in the United Kingdom after the law came into force requiring age verification for access to the main adult...

Did you double-click WinRAR? Congratulations! You’ve been compromised
Redazione RHC - August 9th, 2025
A recently closed WinRAR vulnerability tracked under CVE-2025-8088 was exploited in targeted phishing attacks before the patch was released. The issue involved directory traversal and was only fixed in WinRAR...
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