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Breadcrumbing: Understanding Emotional Manipulation to Better Defend Yourself in the Digital Domain Cyber News

Breadcrumbing: Understanding Emotional Manipulation to Better Defend Yourself in the Digital Domain

This article aims to explore the phenomenon of breadcrumbing from a psychological perspective, metaphorically linking it to the insidious strategies...
Daniela Farina - June 23, 2025
Connected and Vulnerable: How to Secure OT and ICS in 2025 Cyber News

Connected and Vulnerable: How to Secure OT and ICS in 2025

In today's interconnected world, cybersecurity is not just about protecting information. Today, most devices and physical tools are connected to...
Redazione RHC - June 22, 2025
Smart TV or Living Room Spies? Here’s How They’re Monitoring You Cyber News

Smart TV or Living Room Spies? Here’s How They’re Monitoring You

Many owners of smart TV operating systems are increasingly finding themselves caught in a conflict that rages between the desire...
Redazione RHC - June 22, 2025
Android Under Attack: Godfather Malware Now Uses Virtualization to Fool Everyone Cyber News

Android Under Attack: Godfather Malware Now Uses Virtualization to Fool Everyone

A new version of Android malware Godfather has been discovered that creates isolated virtual environments on mobile devices to steal...
Redazione RHC - June 22, 2025
ChatGPT is Shutting Down Our Brains! Alarming MIT Research Shows Mental Decay Cyber News

ChatGPT is Shutting Down Our Brains! Alarming MIT Research Shows Mental Decay

During a RHC Conference, Corrado Giustozzi underlined a truth as simple as it is powerful: “Human beings have always been...
Redazione RHC - June 22, 2025
AKIRA emergency report: the ransomware that is breaching Italy Cybercrime

AKIRA emergency report: the ransomware that is breaching Italy

Spring 2025 will be remembered as a turning point in our country's cyber chronicle. As bulletins and technical releases follow...
RHC Dark Lab - June 22, 2025
Group-IB contributes to INTERPOL’s Operation Secure, leading to the arrest of 32 suspects linked to information stealer malware in Asia Cyber News

Group-IB contributes to INTERPOL’s Operation Secure, leading to the arrest of 32 suspects linked to information stealer malware in Asia

[Singapore; 11 June, 2025] Group-IB, a leading creator of cybersecurity technologies to investigate, prevent, and fight digital crime, announced today...
Sandro Sana - June 11, 2025
RHC Interviews NOVA Ransomware – “Expect Dangerous Attacks. No One Is Safe.” | BLACKVIEW Series Cybercrime

RHC Interviews NOVA Ransomware – “Expect Dangerous Attacks. No One Is Safe.” | BLACKVIEW Series

On May 10, 2025, the City of Pisa suffered a ransomware attack within their computer systems. The next day Nova...
RHC Dark Lab - June 2, 2025
Bringing Your Imagination to Life: AI-Generated Images from Your Description innovation

Bringing Your Imagination to Life: AI-Generated Images from Your Description

Remember when you had a vivid image in your mind but struggled to describe it to someone else? Maybe it...
Ashleigh Crause - May 14, 2025
Why Europe’s healthcare sector must build resilience to fight the threat of ransomware Culture

Why Europe’s healthcare sector must build resilience to fight the threat of ransomware

Author: Andrea Nicelli, Head of Italy and Spain at Resilience Italy’s critical infrastructure is highly exposed to cyber threats, ranking...
Olivia Terragni - April 13, 2025
The Evil Purr – DarkLab Interview to HellCat Ransomware! Cybercrime

The Evil Purr – DarkLab Interview to HellCat Ransomware!

HellCat ransomware appeared in the second half of 2024 with and it has attracted the attentions of analysts thanks to...
RHC Dark Lab - March 30, 2025
VanHelsing RaaS: An Expanding Ransomware-as-a-Service Model Cybercrime

VanHelsing RaaS: An Expanding Ransomware-as-a-Service Model

The ransomware threat landscape is constantly evolving, with increasingly structured groups adopting sophisticated strategies to maximize profits. VanHelsing is a...
Pietro Melillo - March 22, 2025

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 attacks in the early days of this global threat, known...

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 busted a large cybercrime operation, arresting five young French hackers...

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 togain complete control over the system. The vulnerability has been...

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 complete control of the target site. The malicious activity was...

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 of lawyers, so that they could put pressure on the...

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 facilities, as part of the armed conflict between Iran and...

“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 versions of theGrok and Mixtral patterns that have been deliberately modified to bypass...

$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 engineering company has ended up for sale on an underground forum...

“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 of this initiative is to provide the best set of...
Cyberspazio: il filo invisibile tra guerra e pace

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 has been detected, resulting in a wave of DDoS attacks,...

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