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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...
Creeper & Reaper: The story of the first worm and the first antivirus software.
Businesses are going bankrupt due to ransomware. Small and medium-sized businesses, beware!
What is ransomware? Let’s explore how RaaS works and what it means.
The Shellter Elite suite used by Red Teams to bypass EDRs is now being used by cybercrime
Is the end of state-led cyberspace invasions coming? The 56-page draft prepared by the UN
Claude Shannon: Father of Cryptography and Founder of the Information Age

Creeper & Reaper: The story of the first worm and the first antivirus software.
Redazione RHC - July 9th, 2025
It's not uncommon to find references to information technology innovations in video games. Ada Lovelace (the first programmer in history), gave her name to the robot in Folsom 4, but...

Businesses are going bankrupt due to ransomware. Small and medium-sized businesses, beware!
Redazione RHC - July 9th, 2025
Very often on RHC, we talk about cyber attacks and ransomware. But this time, we want to go further. We want to talk about the companies that didn't make it,...

What is ransomware? Let’s explore how RaaS works and what it means.
Redazione RHC - July 9th, 2025
Many people often want to understand the ransomware phenomenon precisely, its meaning, the methods of violation, and the crime that revolves around it, struggling to find information scattered across thousands...

The Shellter Elite suite used by Red Teams to bypass EDRs is now being used by cybercrime
Redazione RHC - July 9th, 2025
Shellter Project, maker of a commercial downloader for bypassing antivirus and EDR systems, has reported that hackers are using its Shellter Elite product for attacks. This is because one of...

Is the end of state-led cyberspace invasions coming? The 56-page draft prepared by the UN
Redazione RHC - July 9th, 2025
The eleventh final session of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on cybersecurity opened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on July 7. The group was created in 2019...

Claude Shannon: Father of Cryptography and Founder of the Information Age
Carlo Denza - July 8th, 2025
Whoever has as a mission, to deal with computer security and therefore also with cryptography, must necessarily pass through the figures of two giants of the last century. We are...
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