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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...
AI Panic: We’re Entering the Most Dangerous Phase of the Digital Revolution
Windows is losing ground. Linux is growing on corporate desktops, citing increased security.
No Spyware for Every Crime! Germany Says No to Sentences Under Three Years
Critical vulnerability in Google’s Gemini CLI allows malicious commands to be executed.
Fortinet Discovers a New Obfuscated Web Shell. Analysis of UpdateChecker.aspx
You’ve been paying for months for a VPN that has done nothing but spy on you

AI Panic: We’re Entering the Most Dangerous Phase of the Digital Revolution
Redazione RHC - August 8th, 2025
In recent months, the debate over artificial intelligence has taken on increasingly extreme tones. On the one hand, large companies developing and selling AI solutions are pushing apocalyptic narratives, warning...

Windows is losing ground. Linux is growing on corporate desktops, citing increased security.
Redazione RHC - August 8th, 2025
Linux usage on corporate desktops and laptops continues to grow. An analysis of nearly 18.5 million devices found that Linux's share of enterprise devices increased from 1.6% in January to...

No Spyware for Every Crime! Germany Says No to Sentences Under Three Years
Redazione RHC - August 8th, 2025
Germany's Supreme Court rules that police can only use spyware to investigate serious crimes.It ruled that law enforcement cannot use spyware to monitor personal devices in cases carrying a maximum...

Critical vulnerability in Google’s Gemini CLI allows malicious commands to be executed.
Redazione RHC - August 8th, 2025
A serious vulnerability has been discovered in Google's recently released Gemini CLI tool, which allows attackers to silently execute malicious commands and leak data from developers' computers if certain commands...

Fortinet Discovers a New Obfuscated Web Shell. Analysis of UpdateChecker.aspx
Redazione RHC - August 8th, 2025
The FortiGuard Labs team has published a detailed analysis of a heavily obfuscated web shell used to attack critical infrastructure in the Middle East. The research focuses on the UpdateChecker.aspx...

You’ve been paying for months for a VPN that has done nothing but spy on you
Redazione RHC - August 7th, 2025
The complex infrastructure of the fraudulent ad network VexTrio Viper has returned to the spotlight after researchers at Infoblox revealed details of a massive fake mobile app scheme. Under the...
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