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FortiGate Under Attack: Tools for Mass Exploitation of Exposed APIs for Sale

Redazione RHC 23/06/2025

A new and alarming development is shaking up the cybersecurity landscape: a malicious actor has advertised on the dark web a highly sophisticated exploit aimed at compromising FortiGate devices. A new exploit priced at $12,000 for FortiGate firewalls has appeared for sale on the popular underground forum Exploit. The post, published by a user with the pseudonym Anon-WMG, presents a tool capable of massively compromising Fortinet devices by exploiting exposed APIs. Technical features of the exploit Called “FortiGate API Dump Exploit (~7.2 and below)”, the tool is capable of interacting with over 170 FortiGate API endpoints, with declared compatibility for versions 6.x

Massive Windows Crash: The OpenVPN Flaw That Can Knock Out Infrastructures

Redazione RHC 22/06/2025

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the OpenVPN data channel offload driver for Windows, which can be exploited by local attackers to crash systems. The bug, classified as CVE-2025-50054, is a buffer overflow that affects 1.3.0 and earlier versions of the ovpn-dco-win driver, as well as OpenVPN versions up to 2.5.8, where that driver was used as the default virtual network adapter. “When using ovpn-dco-win, the OpenVPN software does not send data traffic back and forth between user and kernel space for encryption, decryption, and routing, but payload operations occur in the Windows kernel,” according to documentation released by OpenVPN . According to

AKIRA emergency report: the ransomware that is breaching Italy

RHC Dark Lab 22/06/2025

Spring 2025 will be remembered as a turning point in our country’s cyber chronicle. As bulletins and technical releases follow one another, one fact emerges glaringly: AKIRA has entered the Italian scene heavily. And it has done so without knocking on the door. In the report we publish today, the result of the joint work of our community and the DarkLab subgroup, which specializes in Cyber Threat Intelligence. Analysis with a technical but operational slant on the new offensive campaign of AKIRA, the ransomware-as-a-service that has made its bones abroad and now plays at home hitting large and medium-sized companies all along

RHC GhostSec interview: hacktivism in the shadows of terrorism and cyber conflict

RHC Dark Lab 12/06/2025

Ghost Security, also known as GhostSec, is a hacktivist group which emerged in the context of the cyber war against Islamic extremism. The first actions of the group date back to the aftermath of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo newsroom, January 2015. It is considered an offshoot of the Anonymous collective, from which it later partially broke away. GhostSec became known for its digital offensives against websites, social accounts and online infrastructure used by ISIS to spread propaganda and coordinate terrorist activities. The group claimed to have shut down hundreds of ISIS-affiliated accounts and helped thwart potential terrorist attacks by actively

RHC Interviews NOVA Ransomware – “Expect Dangerous Attacks. No One Is Safe.” | BLACKVIEW Series

RHC Dark Lab 02/06/2025

On May 10, 2025, the City of Pisa suffered a ransomware attack within their computer systems. The next day Nova claimed the attack and on the 21st of the same month threatened to publish 2TB of data stolen from the municipality’s servers. Nova RaaS appeared the first time in the April 2025 period making itself known for its direct and humiliating public communications to victims. From their DLS there does not appear to be a particular focus on specific sectors or states. Nova revamped predecessor RaLord by even going so far as to create a customized chat system for communications with their

Rivendicato un databreach a Deloitte: credenziali GitHub e codice sorgente finiscono sul dark web

Luca Stivali 30/05/2025

Un attacco informatico ai danni di Deloitte è stato rivendicato dal threat actor “303”, che ha pubblicato su un noto forum underground un post con il titolo inequivocabile: “Deloitte.com Source Code + Internal GitHub Credentials – leaked, download!”. Disclaimer: Questo rapporto include screenshot e/o testo tratti da fonti pubblicamente accessibili. Le informazioni fornite hanno esclusivamente finalità di intelligence sulle minacce e di sensibilizzazione sui rischi di cybersecurity. Red Hot Cyber condanna qualsiasi accesso non autorizzato, diffusione impropria o utilizzo illecito di tali dati. Al momento, non è possibile verificare in modo indipendente l’autenticità delle informazioni riportate, poiché l’organizzazione coinvolta non ha ancora rilasciato un

Apple in the crosshairs: alleged data breach of the Cupertino giant published on XSS

Redazione RHC 14/05/2025

May 14, 2025 – In the early hours of this morning, an alarming post appeared on the Russian underground forum XSS , known to be a leading showcase for the buying and selling of compromised data: the Machine1337 group claimed responsibility for an alleged breach of Apple.com’s internal systems. The post, accompanied by the logo of the famous company and signed “Breached by Machine1337”, indicates that in February 2025 Apple would have been the victim of a data breach that would have led to the exposure of internal tools. According to what was declared by the malicious actor, 3,000 files were stolen, offered in samples with a download link. The entire package is put on

The Evil Purr – DarkLab Interview to HellCat Ransomware!

RHC Dark Lab 30/03/2025

HellCat ransomware appeared in the second half of 2024 with and it has attracted the attentions of analysts thanks to the humor within their public statements. We recall the attack to Schneider Electric in France where the group ended up to request a “baguette payment” in their DLS. HellCat group targets are high profile organizations (like Orange, Telefónica, Zurich Group and Pinger) with prolific TTPs which include Jira ticketing system abuses and exploitation of vulnerable public interfaces. One of their recent victims is Jaguar Land Rover that led to a data breach wich highlighted the risk when relying on legacy credentials. HellCat

VanHelsing RaaS: An Expanding Ransomware-as-a-Service Model

Pietro Melillo 22/03/2025

The ransomware threat landscape is constantly evolving, with increasingly structured groups adopting sophisticated strategies to maximize profits. VanHelsing is a new player positioning itself in the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) market, a model that enables even cybercriminals with limited expertise to conduct advanced attacks using an automated platform. Following the February 23, 2025 announcement on an underground forum regarding the VanHelsing RaaS affiliate program, the ransomware group has officially published its first possible victim on its Data Leak Site (DLS). Less than a month after its launch, the appearance of the first compromised organization confirms that VanHelsing is now actively operating. Although the DLS

Paragon Spyware – Let’s talk about privacy and governments

Alessio Stefan 18/03/2025

Politics, information technology, and privacy. A triad continually seeking balance with a history of conflict that originates from the introduction of personal computers at the consumer level. Attempts by the U.S. government in preventing access to “strong enough” cryptography for foreign nationals and states were numerous from 1990 onward. Dubbed as the “Crypto Wars,” such attempts were aimed at maintaining an acceptable level to warrant potential decryption by government agencies for public security reasons. Out of this context came the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) software that allowed authentication and private communications. The use of PGP was widely adopted by a large segment

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