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LockBit 5.0 Ransomware: The Evolving Threat Cybercrime

LockBit 5.0 Ransomware: The Evolving Threat

Cybercrime continues to reinvent itself, and LockBit is one of the most prominent examples. Active since late 2019, the group...
Redazione RHC - 10 January 2026
Instagram Data Leak Exposes 17.5 Million Users on Dark Web Cybercrime

Instagram Data Leak Exposes 17.5 Million Users on Dark Web

A massive digital archive containing the private information of approximately 17.5 million Instagram users appears to have fallen into the...
Redazione RHC - 10 January 2026
Phishing Emails Mimic Internal Comms via Microsoft 365 Spoofing Cybercrime

Phishing Emails Mimic Internal Comms via Microsoft 365 Spoofing

Phishing attacks are becoming increasingly insidious, to the point of perfectly mimicking internal corporate communications . This is the alarm...
Redazione RHC - 10 January 2026
Lovense Emily AI Doll: Revolutionary Companion at CES 2026 Cybercrime

Lovense Emily AI Doll: Revolutionary Companion at CES 2026

At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Lovense , known for its app-controlled smart toys for adults , decided to make...
Redazione RHC - 9 January 2026
HPE OneView Critical Vulnerability Exploited: Update Now to Prevent Attacks Cybercrime

HPE OneView Critical Vulnerability Exploited: Update Now to Prevent Attacks

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the United States of America has raised the alarm about the active...
Redazione RHC - 9 January 2026
Undertow Vulnerability CVE-2025-12543 Exposes Java Ecosystem to Critical Security Risks Cybercrime

Undertow Vulnerability CVE-2025-12543 Exposes Java Ecosystem to Critical Security Risks

A flaw has been discovered in the foundation of the Java web ecosystem. Undertow , the high-performance web server that...
Redazione RHC - 9 January 2026

WhatsApp Device Fingerprinting: New Measures Against Privacy Threats

WhatsApp, Meta's messaging app with over 3 billion monthly active users, has begun introducing technical changes to mitigate several privacy vulnerabilities on user devices . The fixes, identified through independent...
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Microsoft Removes Phone Activation for Windows and Office

Microsoft has finally removed the option to activate Windows and Office over the phone . While the company still includes this method in its support materials, it no longer works...
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PS5 BootROM Key Leaked, Sony’s Security Compromised

A recent incident saw an anonymous hacker leak a crucial security key used by Sony to safeguard the integrity of the chain of trust in the PlayStation 5 console. This...
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China Achieves Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough with Microchip

For years, quantum computers have seemed like a futuristic technology: on paper, they can solve problems that classical machines can’t handle in a reasonable time, but in reality they constantly...
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Critical GNU Wget2 Vulnerability Exposes Users to File Overwrite Attacks

A serious vulnerability has been discovered in the popular GNU command-line downloader Wget2 , which allows attackers to overwrite files on the victim's computer without their knowledge or consent. The...
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Windows 11 Performance Test: Surprising Results with Windows 8.1

A comparison test across six generations of Windows was conducted by YouTube channel TrigrZolt , which unexpectedly revealed a clear winner: Windows 8.1. Windows 11, on the other hand, performed...
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PentestAgent: Revolutionizing Penetration Testing with AI-Powered Tools

PentestAgent is another new open source project developed by the GH05TCREW group that aims to support penetration testing activities through the use of agents based on language models. The tool...
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US Treasury Removes Sanctions on Intellexa Spyware Developers

The U.S. Treasury Department unexpectedly removed from its sanctions list three individuals previously accused of ties to Intellexa , the developer of the Predator spyware . The decision was made...
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Rue Language: Revolutionizing System Programming with AI

Veteran software developer Steve Klabnik, who helped create Rust and Ruby on Rails, has started work on a new programming language called Rue . The name may seem ambiguous— it...
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Password Security: The Impact of Human Behavior on Password Strength

Password security and human behavior are more connected than we think. In previous episodes, we tried to shift our focus: passwords don't just protect systems, they tell stories about people....
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Two Ukrainians Suspected in Black Basta Ransomware Attacks
Redazione RHC - 17/01/2026

When it comes to cybersecurity, it’s not uncommon to come across news stories that seem straight out of a science fiction movie. Yet, the reality is even more surprising and sometimes disturbing. The story of…

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Gootloader Malware Returns with Enhanced Evasion Techniques
Redazione RHC - 17/01/2026

After a long period of silence, the Gootloader downloader malware has returned to the forefront. Last November, the Huntress team detected a new campaign signaling the return of a developer previously associated with the Vanilla…

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VoidLink Malware: Advanced Linux Framework Targets Cloud Infrastructures
Redazione RHC - 16/01/2026

Check Point researchers have discovered a new Linux infection framework distinguished by its advanced modular architecture and wide range of features. The malware has been dubbed VoidLink . The framework is composed of over 30…

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Microsoft Copilot Vulnerability Exposes User Data to Hackers
Redazione RHC - 15/01/2026

A recently fixed vulnerability allowed attackers to exploit Microsoft Copilot Personal with a single click to steal sensitive user data. Using a phishing link, attackers were able to take control of sessions without requiring further…

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Progress Software Patches LoadMaster, MOVEit WAF Vulnerabilities
Redazione RHC - 15/01/2026

On January 12, 2026, Progress Software Corporation released patches that address two high-severity Command Injection vulnerabilities, which could allow remote attackers to execute malicious code on LoadMaster load balancers and MOVEit Web Application Firewalls (WAFs).…