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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 is Doxing and How Can It Change Your Online Life?
What are Botnets? A Journey Through Malware, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and OSINT
What is a zero-day and the risk of targeted cyber attacks
Cloudflare: DDoS attacks decline in Q2 2025, but extreme attacks increase
What is an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT). A journey through malicious actors and state-sponsored hackers.
What are Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and how can we protect ourselves from them?

What is Doxing and How Can It Change Your Online Life?
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
Doxing (short for "dropping dox," sometimes written as Doxxing) is the act of revealing personal information about someone online, such as their real name, home address, workplace, phone number, financial...

What are Botnets? A Journey Through Malware, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and OSINT
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
The Internet provides a sea of information. We often talk on RHC about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), i.e. those intelligence disciplines that deal with the...

What is a zero-day and the risk of targeted cyber attacks
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
Zero-day vulnerabilities are one of the greatest cybersecurity risks for organizations. These are unknown and unpatched vulnerabilities that attackers exploit to penetrate computer systems and compromise data security. In this...

Cloudflare: DDoS attacks decline in Q2 2025, but extreme attacks increase
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
Cloudflare recorded a sharp decline in DDoS attacks in the second quarter of 2025, blocking 7.3 million attacks, compared to the 20.5 million reported in the first quarter. Despite the...

What is an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT). A journey through malicious actors and state-sponsored hackers.
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are malicious actors that operate in the shadows of the internet, conducting highly sophisticated and targeted attacks. These groups, often associated with nation-states, pose a significant...

What are Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and how can we protect ourselves from them?
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are one of the most common threats to websites, servers, and other online infrastructure. Specifically, this type of attack attempts to overwhelm target servers...
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