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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...
The symbol of the hacker community: today we talk about the Glider.
The hacker group LOpht predicted the future of the Internet in 1998, but the US didn’t listen to them.
Linux Pwned! Privilege Escalation on SUDO in 5 seconds. HackerHood tests the CVE-2025-32463 exploit
North Korean Hackers on the Payroll: How Companies Paid Salaries to North Korean IT Specialists
The Story of Open Source: A Success Story of Humankind
Do you really know what Hacktivism means? It’s a “special message of hope!”

The symbol of the hacker community: today we talk about the Glider.
Redazione RHC - July 3rd, 2025
The hacker culture is a fascinating subject. It is a rich mine of outlandish innovation, genius and intuition. Of bizarre characters, of fatalistic humor, of memes, but above all culture,...

The hacker group LOpht predicted the future of the Internet in 1998, but the US didn’t listen to them.
Redazione RHC - July 3rd, 2025
"If you're looking for computer security, then the Internet is not the place to be." Said Mudge, then 27, with the look of a biblical prophet with long brown hair...

Linux Pwned! Privilege Escalation on SUDO in 5 seconds. HackerHood tests the CVE-2025-32463 exploit
Redazione RHC - July 2nd, 2025
Yesterday, Red Hot Cyber published an in-depth analysis of a gserious vulnerability discovered in SUDO (CVE-2025-32463), which allows escalation of privileges to root in Linux environments by exploiting an abuse...

North Korean Hackers on the Payroll: How Companies Paid Salaries to North Korean IT Specialists
Redazione RHC - July 2nd, 2025
The US Department of Justice has announced the discovery ofa large-scale scheme in which fake IT specialists from the DPRK obtained jobs at American companies by posing as citizens of...

The Story of Open Source: A Success Story of Humankind
Massimiliano Brolli - July 2nd, 2025
Author: Massimiliano Brolli, Pietro CornelioPublishing Date: 11/01/2021 Open source software is so present and integrated into our daily lives today that it would be difficult to think of a world...

Do you really know what Hacktivism means? It’s a “special message of hope!”
Redazione RHC - July 2nd, 2025
“Hacktivism, a special message of hope." Thus begins the "Hacktivism Declaration", published on July 4, 2001 by the famous hacker group Cult of the dead Cow (also called cDc or...
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