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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...
More and more malware is hiding in DNS records. The new frontier is also for AI.
The Computer Science degree is changing! 18 months to rewrite your resume.
The new version of the Konfety malware uses advanced evasion techniques
Xlibre and Wayback: Two Linux Projects Clash Over X.org’s Legacy
A study shows a shocking truth: 98.5% of passwords are weak!
Operation Eastwood: Pro-Russian hacker group NoName057(16) dismantled

More and more malware is hiding in DNS records. The new frontier is also for AI.
Redazione RHC - July 17th, 2025
Hackers have learned to hide malware in places where it is virtually impossible to trace: in DNS records that connect domain names to IP addresses. This technique allows them to...

The Computer Science degree is changing! 18 months to rewrite your resume.
Redazione RHC - July 17th, 2025
With the unstoppable advance of artificial intelligence in the education system, American colleges and universities are profoundly rethinking computer science courses. The goal? To promote not only AI literacy, but...

The new version of the Konfety malware uses advanced evasion techniques
Redazione RHC - July 17th, 2025
A new version of the Android malware called Konfety has become even more sophisticated: specialists at Zimperium zLabs have discovered an improved variant that uses non-standard ZIP archives and loads...

Xlibre and Wayback: Two Linux Projects Clash Over X.org’s Legacy
Redazione RHC - July 17th, 2025
The Linux ecosystem is once again in the spotlight, with a fork of the good old X.org taking center stage. The new project, called Xlibre, was launched by German developer...

A study shows a shocking truth: 98.5% of passwords are weak!
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
In a new analysis based on 10 million compromised passwords, Specops has demonstrated how vulnerable corporate networks remain to human error. All passwords were extracted from a list of over...

Operation Eastwood: Pro-Russian hacker group NoName057(16) dismantled
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
As part of the investigations conducted by the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office and coordinated by the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate, the Postal Police has completed important investigative activities in...
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