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AI-Generated Mac Malware: SimpleStealth Threatens User Security Cybercrime

AI-Generated Mac Malware: SimpleStealth Threatens User Security

A group of industry specialists has identified for the first time a macOS malware whose code clearly shows signs of...
Redazione RHC - 11 January 2026
Linus Torvalds on AI Coding: ‘It’s Just Another Tool’ Cybercrime

Linus Torvalds on AI Coding: ‘It’s Just Another Tool’

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, has expressed a firm and uncompromising position regarding the debate over the integration and...
Redazione RHC - 11 January 2026
The Future of Tech: Sovereignty, Security, and Cloud Control Cybercrime

The Future of Tech: Sovereignty, Security, and Cloud Control

In today's world, technology is no longer a mere tool for efficiency or convenience, but a primary geopolitical lever ....
Redazione RHC - 11 January 2026
Internet Shutdowns Cost $19.7B in 2025, Sophisticated Censorship Rises Cybercrime

Internet Shutdowns Cost $19.7B in 2025, Sophisticated Censorship Rises

Imagine a situation where the internet appears to be working, but websites won't open beyond the first screen, messaging apps...
Redazione RHC - 11 January 2026
Doom on a Smart Pressure Cooker: The Ultimate IoT Hack Cybercrime

Doom on a Smart Pressure Cooker: The Ultimate IoT Hack

The line between home appliances and gaming consoles continues to blur. The latest frontier of " extreme porting" features the...
Redazione RHC - 10 January 2026
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

LED Data Transmission System for Smart Traffic

Researchers at Tokyo Polytechnic University have presented a simple and cost-effective wireless data transmission system using LEDs. The project boasts stable outdoor operation, even in bright sunlight, and could form...
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Microsoft Shifts to Rust: AI-Driven Code Transformation by 2030

Microsoft has launched one of the most ambitious code transformation programs ever announced in the software industry: the stated goal is to completely remove C and C++ from its core...
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Microsoft’s AI Future: Models to Systems with Satya Nadella

With 2026 just around the corner, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared a thoughtful reflection on the state of the AI industry on SN Scratchpad , his new personal blog. In...
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Rare Earth Elements: US-China Competition Heats Up

An increasingly pressing question is emerging in the United States: after a long series of bans, restrictions, and closures against China, how will the country guarantee the supply of batteries...
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Patchwork Group Unleashes StreamSpy Malware with WebSocket C2 Channel

The Patchwork hacker group, also known as Dropping Elephant and Maha Grass , has returned to the spotlight after a series of targeted attacks on Pakistani defense facilities. In their...
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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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Google Fast Pair Vulnerability: WhisperPair Exposes Millions of Devices
Redazione RHC - 19/01/2026

Researchers from the Cybersecurity and Industrial Cryptography team at KU Leuven have discovered a critical flaw in the Google Fast Pair protocol. The vulnerability allows attackers to hijack control of millions of Bluetooth devices, track…

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Elon Musk Sues OpenAI for $134 Billion Over AI Betrayal
Redazione RHC - 19/01/2026

Elon Musk has filed a staggering $134 billion in damages in a malicious lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. According to Bloomberg , the latest lawsuit accuses OpenAI of betraying its core mission as a nonprofit…

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Net-NTLMv1 Exploitation: Rainbow Tables for Modern Attacks
Redazione RHC - 18/01/2026

Mandiant has released a large set of rainbow tables dedicated to Net-NTLMv1 with the aim of concretely demonstrating how insecure this authentication protocol has become. Although Net-NTLMv1 has been deprecated for years and its weaknesses…

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Your paycheck is zero! Congratulations, someone answered the phone wrong
Redazione RHC - 18/01/2026

No worker would accept their paycheck disappearing without explanation. It was precisely from a series of internal reports of this nature that an organization began investigating an apparently administrative anomaly, discovering instead a targeted cyber…

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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…