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The editorial staff of Red Hot Cyber is composed of IT and cybersecurity professionals, supported by a network of qualified sources who also operate confidentially. The team works daily to analyze, verify, and publish news, insights, and reports on cybersecurity, technology, and digital threats, with a particular focus on the accuracy of information and the protection of sources. The information published is derived from direct research, field experience, and exclusive contributions from national and international operational contexts.

Patchwork Group Unleashes StreamSpy Malware with WebSocket C2 Channel

The Patchwork hacker group, also known as Dropping Elephant and Maha Grass , has returned to the spotlight after a series of targeted attacks on Pakistani defense facilities. In their...
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WhatsApp Device Fingerprinting: New Measures Against Privacy Threats

WhatsApp, Meta's messaging app with over 3 billion monthly active users, has begun introducing technical changes to mitigate several privacy vulnerabilities on user devices . The fixes, identified through independent...
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Microsoft Removes Phone Activation for Windows and Office

Microsoft has finally removed the option to activate Windows and Office over the phone . While the company still includes this method in its support materials, it no longer works...
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PS5 BootROM Key Leaked, Sony’s Security Compromised

A recent incident saw an anonymous hacker leak a crucial security key used by Sony to safeguard the integrity of the chain of trust in the PlayStation 5 console. This...
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China Achieves Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough with Microchip

For years, quantum computers have seemed like a futuristic technology: on paper, they can solve problems that classical machines can’t handle in a reasonable time, but in reality they constantly...
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Critical GNU Wget2 Vulnerability Exposes Users to File Overwrite Attacks

A serious vulnerability has been discovered in the popular GNU command-line downloader Wget2 , which allows attackers to overwrite files on the victim's computer without their knowledge or consent. The...
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Windows 11 Performance Test: Surprising Results with Windows 8.1

A comparison test across six generations of Windows was conducted by YouTube channel TrigrZolt , which unexpectedly revealed a clear winner: Windows 8.1. Windows 11, on the other hand, performed...
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PentestAgent: Revolutionizing Penetration Testing with AI-Powered Tools

PentestAgent is another new open source project developed by the GH05TCREW group that aims to support penetration testing activities through the use of agents based on language models. The tool...
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US Treasury Removes Sanctions on Intellexa Spyware Developers

The U.S. Treasury Department unexpectedly removed from its sanctions list three individuals previously accused of ties to Intellexa , the developer of the Predator spyware . The decision was made...
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Rue Language: Revolutionizing System Programming with AI

Veteran software developer Steve Klabnik, who helped create Rust and Ruby on Rails, has started work on a new programming language called Rue . The name may seem ambiguous— it...
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