Today is World Children’s Day, established by the UN on November 20 to commemorate two fundamental acts: the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child and, thirty years later, the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. An event that, every year, risks becoming a ritual gesture, a sterile reminder of the “right to the future.” Yet the present tells us that true fragility lies not in the future, but in the way children live today: in a digital ecosystem that wasn’t designed for them, fails to protect them, and exposes them to risks that no longer resemble anything we

In February 2025 we had already observed the functioning of DDoSIA, the crowd-hacking system promoted by NoName057(16): a client distributed via Telegram, DDoS attacks against European targets, rewards in cryptocurrencies.A simple, brutal, but effective machine. Its strong point is not its technical sophistication, but its ability to rapidly mobilize thousands of users, even those with no experience, turning them into occasional cyber-mercenaries. All you need is a smartphone, a Telegram channel, and a download link to enter the “patriotic war.” No training, no skills, just automated clicks and a dashboard with assigned targets. Then came Operation Eastwood, led in recent days by