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Author: Massimiliano Brolli

Massimiliano Brolli

Responsible for the RED Team of a large Telecommunications company and 4G/5G cyber security labs. He has held managerial positions ranging from ICT Risk Management to software engineering to teaching in university master's programs.

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Areas of Expertise Bug Hunting, Red Team, Cyber Intelligence & Threat Analysis, Disclosure, Cyber Warfare and Geopolitics, Ethical Hacking

Massimiliano Brolli is a cybersecurity professional with a long-standing career in the IT and cybersecurity fields. He currently holds leadership roles in security, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and 0-day research within a major Italian technology group.

Current Positions

  • Head of Red Team, 0-day Research & Network Penetration Testing at TIM, a large Italian telecommunications company, responsible for offensive security operations, threat intelligence activities, and the discovery of previously undocumented vulnerabilities.

  • Founder of the Red Hot Cyber community, a project launched in 2019 to promote cybersecurity awareness and risk culture, engaging professionals, students, and international communities.

Core Skills

  • Cybersecurity & Cyber Threat Intelligence: leadership of technical teams and advanced research on threats and vulnerabilities.

  • Security Research (0-day): design and execution of research programs focused on identifying vulnerabilities in complex infrastructures.

  • Leadership & Innovation: creation and growth of community-driven initiatives and technical knowledge-sharing projects.

Initiatives & Contributions

  • Red Hot Cyber: a cybersecurity awareness and community project with over 140 active members, including initiatives such as the RHC Conference, an annual industry event.

  • Ongoing dissemination of technical content and digital risk awareness for both professionals and the broader public.

Professional Vision

He strongly believes in knowledge sharing and ethical hacking as key drivers to bring more people closer to cybersecurity and to help prepare the next generation of security professionals.

Massimiliano Brolli is a recognized reference figure within the Italian cybersecurity landscape, combining strong technical expertise with a clear strategic and educational vision.

Risorse web

Numero di articoli trovati: 70

Intel Website Vulnerabilities: 270,000 Employees at Risk

An attack on Intel's internal resources has demonstrated that vulnerabilities can be found not only in processors, but also in company websites. A security researcher discovered four different ways to...

Critical vulnerability in Apache Tomcat must be patched, otherwise the server could go into DoS.

A critical security flaw has been discovered in Apache Tomcat's HTTP/2 implementation. This vulnerability allows attackers to conduct malicious denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on web servers. The vulnerability, tracked under CVE-2025-48989...

Critical Update for Google Chrome: Patches for Various Vulnerabilities

A critical security update has been released for Google Chrome, which addresses six security vulnerabilities that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. An emergency security update...

A new Privilege Escalation (PE) technique allows UAC bypass on Windows

A recent discovery has uncovered a sophisticated technique that bypasses Windows User Account Control (UAC), allowing privilege escalation without user intervention through the use of the private font editor, raising...

Digital Decay: When the Promised Future Becomes a Cage

For decades, we have celebrated digital as the promise of a more connected, efficient, and democratic future. But today, looking around, a subtle and disturbing question arises: What if we...

What is malware? Between science fiction, the lab, and reality.

We often talk about "Malware". But even today, many people don't fully understand the real meaning of this word. With this article, we want to explain precisely what malware is,...

What is Red Team? A journey into the world of offensive security experts.

The evolution of cyber threats is a constant in today's world. Malicious individuals, often driven by financial, ideological, or other motivations, seek new ways to overcome organizations' digital and physical...

What is Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). Its importance and necessity in today’s world.

The web contains a sea of information. Between social networks, newspapers, specialized magazines, images, radio, and television... we use and produce a sea of public domain data, from which we...

What is Identity and Access Management (IAM)? Let’s find out how to protect your online identities.

How does a large organization with millions of user credentials circulating between production servers, web applications, mobile apps, and workstations, connecting to countless profiles, keep proper records of them? How...

What are security bugs? A journey through PoCs, exploits, bug bounty programs, and work.

A security bug, also known as a computer security bug, is a type of error or flaw in software that can be exploited by an attacker to compromise the security...