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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...
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...
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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...

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...
Proxy Trickster: The Amateur Hackers Group That Wants to Own Servers Worldwide
Malware disguises itself as an innocent photo on Dropbox. APT37’s steganographic strategy
BitLocker Under Attack! A New Technique Enables Lateral Movement While Eluding Security Controls
Mozilla warns Firefox extension developers of active phishing campaign
Is Open Source Going Away? KubeSphere Discontinues Distribution, Ensuing Storm
$14.5 billion stolen from LuBian! It’s the largest cryptocurrency theft in history.

Proxy Trickster: The Amateur Hackers Group That Wants to Own Servers Worldwide
Redazione RHC - August 5th, 2025
Specialists at Solar 4RAYS of Solar Group have discovered a new hacker group, Proxy Trickster, dedicated to cryptocurrency mining and proxyjacking (interception of server control for conversion and sale). Over...

Malware disguises itself as an innocent photo on Dropbox. APT37’s steganographic strategy
Redazione RHC - August 4th, 2025
Specialists at the Genians Security Center have discovered an improved version of the RoKRAT malware, associated with the North Korean APT37 group. The new version is distinguished by an unusual...

BitLocker Under Attack! A New Technique Enables Lateral Movement While Eluding Security Controls
Redazione RHC - August 4th, 2025
Through BitLocker's Component Object Model (COM) feature, attackers can deploy an innovative pivoting technique to execute malicious code on targeted systems. This approach, demonstrated via a test tool called BitLockMove,...

Mozilla warns Firefox extension developers of active phishing campaign
Redazione RHC - August 4th, 2025
Mozilla has warned Firefox extension developers of a new phishing campaign aimed at compromising their accounts on the official AMO platform (addons.mozilla.org). This ecosystem includes over 60,000 add-ons and more...

Is Open Source Going Away? KubeSphere Discontinues Distribution, Ensuing Storm
Redazione RHC - August 4th, 2025
Unfortunately, times are changing: what was once a temple of collaboration and cooperation is gradually transforming into an ecosystem increasingly oriented towards monetization. Another project, specifically KubeSphere, has suddenly stopped...

$14.5 billion stolen from LuBian! It’s the largest cryptocurrency theft in history.
Redazione RHC - August 4th, 2025
In December 2020, the Chinese mining pool LuBian, which at the time occupied nearly 6% of the total Bitcoin network capacity, was the victim of an attack whose full extent...
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