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In Nepal, people are dying for social media! 19 people lost their lives trying to get Facebook back
In a dramatic reversal, Nepal has lifted the nationwide social media blackout imposed last week after it sparked massive youth protests and caused at least 19 deaths, according to local media. The dec...
Xi Jinping and the Chinese APT’s Ambition
The post-COVID macro political movements, including ongoing conflicts, have prompted a majority of states to shift their medium- to long-term political objectives. Clearly, a paradigm shift has been v...
Salesloft Cyber Attack: Chatbot Drift Temporarily Disabled
Salesloft announced that it would temporarily deactivate its AI-powered chatbot Drift on September 5, after several companies were hit by a massive supply chain attack. The incident resulted in the ma...
Discover the Dark Web: Access, Secrets, and Helpful Links to the Onion Network
The Dark Web is a part of the internet that cannot be reached with standard browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge). To access it, you need to use specific tools like the Tor Browser, which guarantees anonym...
AI A2 detected 102 0-day bugs and created exploits in Android apps for $1.77
Artificial intelligence systems have been criticized for creating confusing vulnerability reports and inundating open-source developers with irrelevant complaints. But researchers at Nanjing Universit...
$16 billion in stolen Apple, Meta, and Google credentials up for sale for $121,000
The Darklab team, Red Hot Cyber‘s community of threat intelligence experts, has identified an ad on the dark web marketplace “Tor Amazon”, the criminal counterpart of the popular e-commerce site on th...
Red Hot Cyber Conference 2026: Sponsorships Open for the Fifth Edition in Rome
The Red Hot Cyber Conference has become a regular event for the Red Hot Cyber community and for anyone working in or interested in the world of digital technologies and cybersecurity. The fifth editio...
Hexstrike AI unleashes chaos! Zero-days exploited in record time
The release of Hexstrike-AI marks a turning point in the cybersecurity landscape. The framework, billed as a next-generation tool for red teams and researchers, is capable of orchestrating over 150 sp...
LockBit 5.0: Signs of a New and Possible “Rebirth”?
LockBit represents one of the longest-running and most structured ransomware gangs of recent years, with a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model that has profoundly impacted the criminal ecosystem. Fol...
The KING of DDoS! Cloudflare blocks a monstrous 11.5 terabit-per-second attack.
The record for the largest DDoS attack ever recorded in June 2025 has already been broken. Cloudflare said it recently blocked the largest DDoS attack in history, which peaked at 11.5 Tbps. “Cloudflar...
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In a dramatic reversal, Nepal has lifted the nationwide social media blackout imposed last week after it sparked massive youth protests and caused at least 19 deaths, according to local media. The dec...

The post-COVID macro political movements, including ongoing conflicts, have prompted a majority of states to shift their medium- to long-term political objectives. Clearly, a paradigm shift has been v...

Salesloft announced that it would temporarily deactivate its AI-powered chatbot Drift on September 5, after several companies were hit by a massive supply chain attack. The incident resulted in the ma...

The Dark Web is a part of the internet that cannot be reached with standard browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge). To access it, you need to use specific tools like the Tor Browser, which guarantees anonym...

Artificial intelligence systems have been criticized for creating confusing vulnerability reports and inundating open-source developers with irrelevant complaints. But researchers at Nanjing Universit...
What are zero-day brokers? Discovering the underground market of security vulnerabilities
Apache Tomcat DoS Vulnerability: CVE-2025-53506 Under Analysis
Magnus Carlsen beats ChatGPT at chess without losing a piece!
Magnus Carlsen beats ChatGPT at chess without losing a piece!
Putin imposes restrictions on foreign software that has “strangled” Russia
How an LLM Really Works: Costs, Infrastructure, and the Technical Choices Behind Big Language Models

What are zero-day brokers? Discovering the underground market of security vulnerabilities
Redazione RHC - July 19th, 2025
Zeroday brokers are intermediaries who buy and sell software vulnerabilities that are unknown to the manufacturers and organizations that use them. These vulnerabilities, known as "zerodays," are exploited by cybercriminals...

Apache Tomcat DoS Vulnerability: CVE-2025-53506 Under Analysis
Redazione RHC - July 19th, 2025
The Apache team recently fixed a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability classified as high severity. There's a new inconvenient guest in data centers around the world. It's called CVE-2025-53506 and it doesn't...

Magnus Carlsen beats ChatGPT at chess without losing a piece!
Redazione RHC - July 18th, 2025
Magnus Carlsen beat ChatGPT at chess without losing a single piece, while his virtual opponent lost all his pawns. The Norwegian grandmaster posted screenshots of the game on the social...

Magnus Carlsen beats ChatGPT at chess without losing a piece!
Redazione RHC - July 18th, 2025
Magnus Carlsen beat ChatGPT at chess without losing a single piece, while his virtual opponent lost all his pawns. The Norwegian grandmaster posted screenshots of the game on the social...

Putin imposes restrictions on foreign software that has “strangled” Russia
Redazione RHC - July 18th, 2025
The Kremlin press office reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to develop additional restrictions on software (including "communications services")produced in hostile countries by September 1, 2025....

How an LLM Really Works: Costs, Infrastructure, and the Technical Choices Behind Big Language Models
Redazione RHC - July 18th, 2025
In recent years, large language models (LLM, Large Language Models) such as GPT, Claude, or LLaMA have demonstrated extraordinary capabilities in understanding and generating natural language. However, behind the scenes,...
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