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Citrix: New Critical Vulnerability from 9.2 Affects NetScaler – Attacks Underway! Cyber News

Citrix: New Critical Vulnerability from 9.2 Affects NetScaler – Attacks Underway!

Citrix has reported a new critical vulnerability in its NetScaler appliances, already actively exploited by attackers. The problem is identified...
Massimiliano Brolli - June 26, 2025
REvil: Sentenced but then set free. The most controversial court case ever Cyber News

REvil: Sentenced but then set free. The most controversial court case ever

Do you remember the infamous REvil cyber gang? The Russian hacker group responsible for some of the most devastating ransomware...
Pietro Melillo - June 26, 2025
Shock in France: the gentlemen of BreachForums were twenty-year-old French citizens! Cyber News

Shock in France: the gentlemen of BreachForums were twenty-year-old French citizens!

Shocking news in France: one of the largest global cybercrime networks dismantled. The BreachForum hackers were… French. French authorities have...
Redazione RHC - June 25, 2025
Zero-Click Attack on Notepad++. HackerHood Tested the Exploit and It Really Works with Little Cyber News

Zero-Click Attack on Notepad++. HackerHood Tested the Exploit and It Really Works with Little

A dangerous vulnerability has been discovered in the latest version of the popular text editor Notepad++ that allows an attacker...
Manuel Roccon - June 25, 2025
22,000 Sites At Risk: New Motors WordPress Vulnerability Allows Total Hacking Cyber News

22,000 Sites At Risk: New Motors WordPress Vulnerability Allows Total Hacking

Attackers are actively exploiting a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the WordPress Motors theme, allowing them to hijack administrator accounts and take...
Massimiliano Brolli - June 25, 2025
Qilin & Associates Law Firm: Ransomware Hires Lawyers, Launches “Intimidation Package” Cybercrime

Qilin & Associates Law Firm: Ransomware Hires Lawyers, Launches “Intimidation Package”

The developers of the Qilin ransomware (recently interviewed by us) offered their partners the help and advice of a team...
Pietro Melillo - June 25, 2025
US-Iran Cyberwar: DHS Raises Alarm, American Networks Under Attack Cyber News

US-Iran Cyberwar: DHS Raises Alarm, American Networks Under Attack

The United States has warned of possible cyber attacks by pro-Iranian groups following a series of airstrikes against Iranian nuclear...
Agostino Pellegrino - June 24, 2025
“Jailbreak as a Service” is Coming: 60 Euros a Month to Purchase Cybercrime-Ready AI Systems Cyber News

“Jailbreak as a Service” is Coming: 60 Euros a Month to Purchase Cybercrime-Ready AI Systems

According to a report by Cato Networks, cybercriminals continue to actively use LLM patterns in their attacks. Specifically, we are talking about...
Agostino Pellegrino - June 24, 2025
$200 for Access to an Italian Company! While the Dark Web is doing business, are you ready to defend yourself? Cyber News

$200 for Access to an Italian Company! While the Dark Web is doing business, are you ready to defend yourself?

Following the case of the 568 endpoints of an Italian industrial machinery company, another compromised access related to an Italian software...
Luca Stivali - June 24, 2025
“Cleaning Up” Windows Update! Microsoft Declares War on Drivers Exploited in Ransomware Attacks Cyber News

“Cleaning Up” Windows Update! Microsoft Declares War on Drivers Exploited in Ransomware Attacks

Microsoft announced that it will periodically remove outdated drivers from the Windows Update Catalog to reduce risk and improve compatibility. "The goal...
Redazione RHC - June 24, 2025
Cyberspace: The Invisible Thread Between War and Peace Cyber News

Cyberspace: The Invisible Thread Between War and Peace

How Iran-Israel’s Digital War Redefines Security, Diplomacy, and the Global Future? Since June 12, a 700% increase in cyber activity...
Sandro Sana - June 23, 2025
Cloudflare Mitigates 7.3 Terabits Per Second Attack. Imagine 9350 HD Movies Downloaded in 45 Seconds Cyber News

Cloudflare Mitigates 7.3 Terabits Per Second Attack. Imagine 9350 HD Movies Downloaded in 45 Seconds

In mid-May 2025, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps). This event comes shortly...
Redazione RHC - June 23, 2025

DuckDuckGo Updates Scam Blocker: Say Goodbye to Online Scams and Fake Sites!

The Scam Blocker tool built into DuckDuckGo browser has been updated to protect against online scams. Now detects fake e-commerce sites, cryptocurrency exchanges, and scareware. DuckDuckGo browser, which is entering public beta...

Cyberattacks on NFC contactless payments increase, new global threat

A new series of cyber attacks has been detected by ESET specialists, which sees the contactless payments sector with NFC technology as the protagonist. This type of attack was initially...

The Race to 0day! China Advances in Offensive Cyberpower, While the US Is Forced to Chase

China's growing rise has prompted U.S. officials to strongly emphasize the need to improve its offensive cyber capabilities. However, some doubts remain about the ability to meet the challenge, given...

Cyberbullying and Digital Terror: Why Betti’s Comic Makes You Feel Uncomfortable (and That’s a Good Thing)

When I decided to write this story of Betti, it was certainly not to make a “nice” or “easy” comic, to read on a sunny afternoon at the beach and...

Miniaturized Military Drone, Mosquito-Sized Model Arrives and China Offers It

In the military sector, the trend to miniaturize drones seems to know no limits, especially when the goal is to operate without being detected. An example of this race to...

Cyber Security: CISA and NSA Recommend Secure Programming Languages

The main US cybersecurity agencies, CISA and NSA, have published a joint document recommending that software developers opt for programming languages considered "memory safe". These languages are designed to provide...

Apple and Google under pressure: German regulator wants to remove DeepSeek

Following the Italian data protection regulator, Germany's data protection watchdog has now asked Apple and Alphabet subsidiary Google to remove the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup's DeepSeek app from their...

A former Australian university student has been accused of hacking Western Sydney University

New South Wales police have arrested a 27-year-old former Western Sydney University student who had repeatedly hacked into the university's systems, including to obtain cheaper parking. Western Sydney University is...

Skynet is coming: the malware that attacks Artificial Intelligence!

An unusual example of malicious code has been discovered in a real computing environment, which for the first time recorded an attempt to attack not classical defense mechanisms, but directly...

Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in Hundreds of Brother and Other Printers

Hundreds of printer models from Brother and other manufacturers (Fujifilm, Toshiba, Ricoh and Konica Minolta) have been found to be vulnerable to serious vulnerabilities discovered by researchers at Rapid7. For...

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