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What is Red Team? A journey into the world of offensive security experts.

The evolution of cyber threats is a constant in today’s world. Malicious individuals, often driven by financial, ideological, or other motivations, seek new ways to overcome organizations’...

UK: Strict rules for online age verification. Pornhub and YouPorn will comply.

Starting Friday, adults in the UK who try to access pornographywill have to prove they are over 18, under some of the strictest regulations in the world. The change means that, instead of having to pr...

Operation Checkmate: A major law enforcement coup. BlackSuit has been apprehended!

During a coordinated international operation dubbed Operation Checkmate, law enforcement officials have dealt a major blow to the BlackSuit ransomware group (onion link here, which has fallen into the...

What does a CISO do? Meet the Chief Information Security Officer: a beautiful but demanding position.

How many times have we heard this acronym: CISO? But how many of us don’t know precisely what it means or have little in-depth knowledge of what a Chief Information Security Officer does? This p...

SharePoint and CrowdStrike: Two Faces of the Same Digital Fragility

In recent days, the global digital landscape has been rocked by a cybersecurity bug that affected on-premise Microsoft SharePoint servers, exposing thousands of organizations to cyber attacks. These a...

ToolShell: Microsoft SharePoint Zero-Day Vulnerability Has Been Under Attack Since Early July

According to cybersecurity experts, several Chinese hacker groups are exploiting a series of zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint in their attacks. In particular, it emerged that attackers...

Red Hot Cyber Conference 2026. The fifth edition in Rome on Monday, May 18th and Tuesday, May 19th.

The Red Hot Cyber Conference is back! After the great success of the third and fourth editions, the free annual event created by the RHC community is back! An event designed to bring young people clos...

Patriotic Code: From DDoSia and NoName057(16) to CISM, the algorithm that shapes youth for Putin

In February 2025 we had already observed the functioning of DDoSIA, the crowd-hacking system promoted by NoName057(16): a client distributed via Telegram, DDoS attacks against European targets, reward...

Artificial Intelligence: History, Technology, Ethics, Regulations, and the Future

Artificial intelligence (AI) is software that can generate output (i.e., content, predictions, decisions, recommendations) capable of interacting with the environment and according to human objectives...

What are penetration tests, why are they done, who performs them, and the benefits for organizations.

Penetration testing is an increasingly widespread practice in the field of cybersecurity. It is a real simulation of a cyber attack, conducted by a team of security experts, in order to identify and a...

Featured Articles

What is Red Team? A journey into the world of offensive security experts.

Di Redazione RHC - 27/07/2025

The evolution of cyber threats is a constant in today’s world. Malicious individuals, often driven by financial, ideological, or other motivations, seek new ways to overcome organizations’...

UK: Strict rules for online age verification. Pornhub and YouPorn will comply.

Di Redazione RHC - 25/07/2025

Operation Checkmate: A major law enforcement coup. BlackSuit has been apprehended!

Di Redazione RHC - 25/07/2025

What does a CISO do? Meet the Chief Information Security Officer: a beautiful but demanding position.

Di Redazione RHC - 24/07/2025

How many times have we heard this acronym: CISO? But how many of us don’t know precisely what it means or have little in-depth knowledge of what a Chief Information Security Officer does? This p...

SharePoint and CrowdStrike: Two Faces of the Same Digital Fragility

Di Redazione RHC - 24/07/2025

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...