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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...
Apple 2: the story of a great success.
Russian domestic hackers Cozy Bear (APT29). Analysis of the main attacks and their TTPs.
Critical Vulnerability in FortiWeb: Score 9.6 and Unauthorized SQL Commands
A RCE vulnerability in Wing FTP Server rated 10 opens the door to 10,000 companies.
There’s no such thing as zero risk! There’s only one risk you need to know to manage.
Working in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity needs you.

Apple 2: the story of a great success.
Redazione RHC - July 13th, 2025
On June 10, 1977, the Apple II went on sale, the historic microcomputer that kicked off the home computing revolution. We'd like to dedicate an article to its history. The...

Russian domestic hackers Cozy Bear (APT29). Analysis of the main attacks and their TTPs.
Redazione RHC - July 13th, 2025
Author: Gianluca Tiepolo APT29 is a highly sophisticated Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group that has been attributed to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). The group has been active since at...

Critical Vulnerability in FortiWeb: Score 9.6 and Unauthorized SQL Commands
Redazione RHC - July 13th, 2025
A new vulnerability, tracked under CVE-2025-25257, was recently published affecting several versions of Fortinet FortiWeb. This vulnerability could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute unauthorized SQL commands via forged HTTP/S requests....

A RCE vulnerability in Wing FTP Server rated 10 opens the door to 10,000 companies.
Redazione RHC - July 12th, 2025
Huntress researchers have detected active exploitation of a critical vulnerability in Wing FTP Server, just one day after its public disclosure. The vulnerability CVE-2025-47812 has been assigned the highest severity...

There’s no such thing as zero risk! There’s only one risk you need to know to manage.
Redazione RHC - July 12th, 2025
Cybersecurity is a critically important topic for companies and organizations of all sizes and industries. As business operations and information management become increasingly digital, the risk of cyberattacks has become...

Working in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity needs you.
Redazione RHC - July 12th, 2025
We know it by now. Every country in the world (including Italy) has a huge shortage of cybersecurity experts, while cybercrime is rampant in every corner of the globe. This...
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