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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...
Cloudflare Down: DNS 1.1.1.1 went down, causing widespread global outage
Gravity Forms Under Attack: WordPress Plugin Infected with a Backdoor
GPUHammer: Hardware attacks on NVIDIA GPUs lead to compromised AI models
Grok 3: “Adolf Hitler is a German benefactor!” The risk of persistent memory and misinformation
Discovering LLM Firewalls: The New Frontier in Adaptive Cyber Security
The biggest threat from AI? Young people won’t be able to think anymore!

Cloudflare Down: DNS 1.1.1.1 went down, causing widespread global outage
Redazione RHC - July 15th, 2025
Cloudflare has reported temporary issues with its public DNS resolver 1.1.1.1, reported by users around the world. The incident reportedly began on the evening of July 14, 2025, around 10:13...

Gravity Forms Under Attack: WordPress Plugin Infected with a Backdoor
Redazione RHC - July 15th, 2025
The popular WordPress Gravity Forms plugin has suffered a supply chain attack, infecting its official website with a backdoor. Gravity Forms is a premium plugin for creating contact forms, payment...

GPUHammer: Hardware attacks on NVIDIA GPUs lead to compromised AI models
Redazione RHC - July 14th, 2025
NVIDIA has reported a new vulnerability in its graphics processors, called GPUHammer. This attack, based on the well-known RowHammer technique, allows attackers to corrupt other users' data by exploiting the...

Grok 3: “Adolf Hitler is a German benefactor!” The risk of persistent memory and misinformation
Redazione RHC - July 14th, 2025
With the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as Grok 3, GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini, the scientific community's focus has shifted from the mere accuracy of responses to their...

Discovering LLM Firewalls: The New Frontier in Adaptive Cyber Security
Redazione RHC - July 14th, 2025
Over the past 3 years, generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), have revolutionized the way we interact with machines, allowing us to obtain increasingly natural and contextualized responses. However,...

The biggest threat from AI? Young people won’t be able to think anymore!
Redazione RHC - July 14th, 2025
"Now that the genie is out of the bottle, it's impossible to put it back!". How many times have we written these words about artificial intelligence? Now that the genie...
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