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The Great Firewall in the Spotlight: The Leak Revealing the Industrialization of Chinese Censorship
Edited by Luca Stivali and Olivia Terragni. On September 11, 2025, what can be defined as the largest leak ever suffered by the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exploded in the media, massively and massi...
OpenAI and Microsoft reach agreement to transform into a public utility company.
OpenAI has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft to review its partnership, which could lead to the company’s transformation into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). If the transfo...
Goodbye PowerShell 2.0 and WMIC! The great Windows 11 cleanup has begun.
Windows 11 users who have installed the September 2025 Update might think that practically nothing changes. At first glance, KB5065426 looks like a normal small patch that Microsoft distributes to eve...
Looking for Volodymyr Tymoshchuk! 11 million dollars for the Nefilim hacker
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Ukrainian Volodymyr Tymoshchuk on seven counts of computer hacking and extortion. He is considered one of the most dangerous hackers of recent years. The in...
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...
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Edited by Luca Stivali and Olivia Terragni. On September 11, 2025, what can be defined as the largest leak ever suffered by the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exploded in the media, massively and massi...

OpenAI has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft to review its partnership, which could lead to the company’s transformation into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). If the trans...

Windows 11 users who have installed the September 2025 Update might think that practically nothing changes. At first glance, KB5065426 looks like a normal small patch that Microsoft distributes to eve...

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Ukrainian Volodymyr Tymoshchuk on seven counts of computer hacking and extortion. He is considered one of the most dangerous hackers of recent years. The in...

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...
Sentenced to 4.5 years for piracy: he sold DVDs and films online.
Samsung releases September 2025 security patch, fixing critical vulnerabilities.
Villager: The Kali Linux and DeepSeek Attack Tool That’s Alarming Experts
LockBit 5.0 Hacked Again: XOXO from Prague Strikes Again
Italy among the spyware giants! A solid third place after Israel and the US.
Windows 11: Microsoft Revamps File Explorer with Artificial Intelligence

Sentenced to 4.5 years for piracy: he sold DVDs and films online.
Redazione RHC - September 13th, 2025
A U.S. court sentenced a Memphis resident to four and a half years in prison for selling digital copies of movies before their official release. Steven R. Hale, 37, who...

Samsung releases September 2025 security patch, fixing critical vulnerabilities.
Redazione RHC - September 13th, 2025
A September 2025 security update has been released by Samsung to address a critical zero-day vulnerability that is currently being actively exploited. This patch includes fixes for a total of...

Villager: The Kali Linux and DeepSeek Attack Tool That’s Alarming Experts
Redazione RHC - September 13th, 2025
The experts at Straiker have announced a new tool called Villager, which has been downloaded nearly 10,000 times from the official PyPI repository since its release in July. The program...

LockBit 5.0 Hacked Again: XOXO from Prague Strikes Again
Luca Stivali - September 13th, 2025
A déjà-vu with new implications. In May 2025, the LockBit ransomware collective suffered a severe blow: the defacement of the affiliate panel of version 4.0 by an unknown actor signing...

Italy among the spyware giants! A solid third place after Israel and the US.
Redazione RHC - September 12th, 2025
We're not exactly great at cybersecurity, but we're top of the class when it comes to spyware! According to an Atlantic Council study, the spyware industry is booming as investors...

Windows 11: Microsoft Revamps File Explorer with Artificial Intelligence
Redazione RHC - September 12th, 2025
Microsoft has begun testing new AI-powered features in File Explorer in Windows 11. These features will allow users to interact with images and documents directly from File Explorer, without having...
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