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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...
Famous hackers: the sad story of Jonathan James, aka c0mrade.
Famous Hackers: The Story of Gary McKinnon.
DuckDuckGo Updates Scam Blocker: Say Goodbye to Online Scams and Fake Sites!
Cyberattacks on NFC contactless payments increase, new global threat
The Race to 0day! China Advances in Offensive Cyberpower, While the US Is Forced to Chase
Cyberbullying and Digital Terror: Why Betti’s Comic Makes You Feel Uncomfortable (and That’s a Good Thing)

Famous hackers: the sad story of Jonathan James, aka c0mrade.
Redazione RHC - July 1st, 2025
He was born on December 12, 1983, in a small village called Pinecrest located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. His father was a computer programmer and his mother was a housewife....

Famous Hackers: The Story of Gary McKinnon.
Redazione RHC - July 1st, 2025
A few months after the attacks on the World Trade Center, a strange message appeared on a U.S. Army computer: "Your security system is shit" it read. "I am Alone....

DuckDuckGo Updates Scam Blocker: Say Goodbye to Online Scams and Fake Sites!
Redazione RHC - July 1st, 2025
The Scam Blocker tool built into DuckDuckGo browser has been updated to protect against online scams. Now detects fake e-commerce sites, cryptocurrency exchanges, and scareware. DuckDuckGo browser, which is entering public beta...

Cyberattacks on NFC contactless payments increase, new global threat
Redazione RHC - June 30th, 2025
A new series of cyber attacks has been detected by ESET specialists, which sees the contactless payments sector with NFC technology as the protagonist. This type of attack was initially...

The Race to 0day! China Advances in Offensive Cyberpower, While the US Is Forced to Chase
Redazione RHC - June 30th, 2025
China's growing rise has prompted U.S. officials to strongly emphasize the need to improve its offensive cyber capabilities. However, some doubts remain about the ability to meet the challenge, given...

Cyberbullying and Digital Terror: Why Betti’s Comic Makes You Feel Uncomfortable (and That’s a Good Thing)
Redazione RHC - June 29th, 2025
When I decided to write this story of Betti, it was certainly not to make a “nice” or “easy” comic, to read on a sunny afternoon at the beach and...
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