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Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc). The story of the most famous hacker group.

Redazione RHC 13/07/2025

Hacker culture, as we’ve already discussed, is a fascinating subject that has evolved significantly over time to reach the present day. We talked about its origins in a video dedicated to the Tech Model Railroad Club, the famous club where the first hacker community took shape at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But much later, in the era of BBS and IRC, in that period between the 1980s and 1990s, a series of hacker groups formed around the world, which influenced and shaped hacker culture and security. IT of that historic period. In these groups, the most recognized ones, they didn’t just

Do you really know what Hacktivism means? It’s a “special message of hope!”

Redazione RHC 02/07/2025

“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 Omega). “Free speech is under siege on the fringes of the internet. Several countries are censoring access to the web…” In the beginning there was activism This is the activity that attempts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political and economic reforms, with the main desire to initiate strong changes within a society through demonstrations, sit-ins, hunger strikes and much more. Following the advent of microcomputers and the rise of

US-Iran Cyberwar: DHS Raises Alarm, American Networks Under Attack

Redazione RHC 24/06/2025

The United States has warned of possible cyber attacks by pro-Iranian groups following a series of airstrikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, as part of the armed conflict between Iran and Israel that began on June 13, 2025. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that the current situation creates a “elevated threat” in the country’s cyberspace. The department said that hacktivists, as well as groups associated with Iranian government agencies, will most likely focus their attacks on American networks and vulnerable devices connected to the Internet. According to the DHS, such activities have already been recorded: these are low-level attacks aimed at creating

Beyond the Dark Storm’s attack on X: how hacktivism’s Illusion reinforces the System

Olivia Terragni 18/03/2025

The Dark Storm attack on X (formerly Twitter) has been significant for several reasons. The attack on March 10 2025 – a multi-layered Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) using a botnet – claimed by by the pro-Palestinian hacktivist group Dark Storm, caused a major global outage, affecting a large number of users worldwide and disrupting its services. “There’s been (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk wrote, “We are attacked every day, but this one was done with many resources. Seems to be a large, coordinated group and/or a country involved”. X had previously (in August 2024) already suffered a DDoS attack, which

RipperSec claims DDoS attack on Ferrari

Inva Malaj 11/08/2024

Recently the Hacktivist Group “RipperSec” claimed to have attacked Ferrari’s global site in the name of justice for Palestine. The hacktivist group known as ‘RipperSec’ claimed responsibility for a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack that put Ferrari’s global website partially out of service for a short time. In a post shared on social media, the group published a screenshot showing Ferrari’s site with a 500 error, highlighting the success of their attack. Currently, however, the site appears to be back online. The message from “RipperSec” is not only limited to claiming the attack, but also includes a strong political message, “Open