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What are Botnets? A Journey Through Malware, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and OSINT
The Internet provides a sea of information. We often talk on RHC about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), i.e. those intelligence disciplines that deal with the rese...
What is a zero-day and the risk of targeted cyber attacks
Zero-day vulnerabilities are one of the greatest cybersecurity risks for organizations. These are unknown and unpatched vulnerabilities that attackers exploit to penetrate computer systems and comprom...
Discovering Scattered Spider: The Criminal Threat Using Advanced Tactics and Techniques
By Cyber Defense Center Maticmind (Andrea Mariucci, Riccardo Michetti, Federico Savastano, Ada Spinelli) The Scattered Spider threat actor, UNC9344, made its appearance in 2022 with two targeted attac...
Tasting the Exploit: HackerHood testa l’exploit su Wing FTP Server del CVE‑2025‑47812 da Score 10
This tool is intended solely for authorized educational and penetration testing purposes. The author assumes no responsibility for any misuse or damage caused by this software. Always ensure you have ...
What is cyber warfare? Between geopolitics, economics, and technology.
Cyber warfare is a form of conflict that takes place at the cyber and digital level. This form of warfare has become increasingly widespread in recent years, thanks to the growing dependence of modern...
Critical Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel: A New Privilege Escalation
A critical double-free vulnerability has been discovered in the pipapo set module of the NFT subsystem of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a special...
RHC interviews Sector16, one of the most active hacktivist groups of 2025. “Let’s destroy the present for a better future”
In recent months, two disturbing episodes have shaken public opinion and the Italian cybersecurity sector. The first concerned an Italian hospital, violated in its most sensitive heart: videos of pati...
RCE 0day Exploit for WinRAR and WinZIP for Sale on Exploit.in for Scam Phishing Emails
Recently, the popular underground forum exploit.in, currently closed and accessible by invitation only, has been offering exploits for a 0day vulnerability affecting the well-known WinRAR and WinZIP p...
What is ransomware? Let’s explore how RaaS works and what it means.
Many people often want to understand the ransomware phenomenon precisely, its meaning, the methods of violation, and the crime that revolves around it, struggling to find information scattered across ...
The symbol of the hacker community: today we talk about the Glider.
The hacker culture is a fascinating subject. It is a rich mine of outlandish innovation, genius and intuition. Of bizarre characters, of fatalistic humor, of memes, but above all culture, engineering ...
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The Internet provides a sea of information. We often talk on RHC about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), i.e. those intelligence disciplines that deal with the rese...

Zero-day vulnerabilities are one of the greatest cybersecurity risks for organizations. These are unknown and unpatched vulnerabilities that attackers exploit to penetrate computer systems and comprom...

By Cyber Defense Center Maticmind (Andrea Mariucci, Riccardo Michetti, Federico Savastano, Ada Spinelli) The Scattered Spider threat actor, UNC9344, made its appearance in 2022 with two targeted attac...

This tool is intended solely for authorized educational and penetration testing purposes. The author assumes no responsibility for any misuse or damage caused by this software. Always ensure you have ...

Cyber warfare is a form of conflict that takes place at the cyber and digital level. This form of warfare has become increasingly widespread in recent years, thanks to the growing dependence of modern...

RHC ransomware Data Room – January 2022
Author: Dott. Luca Mella, Cyber Security Expert (founder doubleextortion.com) Translate: Vincenzo Marcovecchio Pubblication Date: 5/02/2022 In recent years, the ransomware phenomenon has been so disruptive that it heavily influences the security agendas of many companies, organizations, and beyond. The disruptive

Satoshi Nakamoto: let’s discover the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin.
Autore: Brolli Massimiliano Translate: Vincenzo Marcovecchio Pubblication date: 1/06/2021 The true identity of the creator of Bitcoin is one of the greatest mysteries in the tech world. Over the years, many theories have emerged about who Satoshi Nakamoto really is,

Nuclear rearmament, cyber guerrillas and cyber crime.
Author: Roberto Villani Tanslate: Vincenzo Marcovecchio Pubblication date: 19/12/2021 Why will the cyberg wars, indeed the cyber-guerrillas, be more and more present and involve us more and more? The short century, the 1900s that we have left for more than

Why privacy does not exist.
Author Massimiliano Brolli Translation: Vincenzo Marcovecchio Pubblication date: 18/12/2021 Privacy, privacy, privacy, … privacy comes first. How many times have we heard this sentence? Yes, because we talk a lot about this topic, we talk about it at work, we
Electronic warfare (EW) between the USA, China, South and North Korea (part two)
Author: Olivia TerragniPubblication Date: 13/12/2021 Given that North Korean cyberattacks are not a future threat, but already a FACT, we are already wondering how to deal with the election of the next president of South Korea. To begin the command

North Korea’s cyberwarfare and its cyber army (part one)
Author: Olivia Terragni Pubblication date: 13/12/2021 During the night, only one bright spot lights up in North Korea: the city of Pyongyang. Perhaps, due to the dark that surrounds it, we understand so little to comprehend what’s happening there. Maybe

The Hackers Choice – 30 years of hacking without trying to get rich!
Alessio Stefan - July 16th, 2024
Imagine a time before firewalls and ubiquitous encryption, when the digital frontier was wide open for exploration. Hackers weren't criminals, they were pioneers, fueled by an insatiable thirst for knowledge. ...

Rockstar Games Possibly Victim of a Massive Data Leak!
Pietro Melillo - July 16th, 2024
Recently, an alleged data leak has involved Rockstar Games, one of the world's largest video game producers, famous for titles like Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. According to...

Potential Data Leak from Google: 1 Million Records Exposed
Pietro Melillo - July 15th, 2024
Recently, a threat actor claimed to have publicly released one million records scraped from Google, raising significant alarm regarding personal data security. The information appeared on an online forum in...

Threat Actor 888 Claims Compromise of BMW (Hong Kong) Customers
Pietro Melillo - July 15th, 2024
Recently, a concerning news story has emerged in the world of cybersecurity. A well-known hacker, identified by the nickname 888, has allegedly leaked sensitive data belonging to BMW customers in...
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