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OpenAI and Microsoft reach agreement to transform into a public utility company.
OpenAI has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft to review its partnership, which could lead to the company’s transformation into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). If the transfo...
Goodbye PowerShell 2.0 and WMIC! The great Windows 11 cleanup has begun.
Windows 11 users who have installed the September 2025 Update might think that practically nothing changes. At first glance, KB5065426 looks like a normal small patch that Microsoft distributes to eve...
Looking for Volodymyr Tymoshchuk! 11 million dollars for the Nefilim hacker
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Ukrainian Volodymyr Tymoshchuk on seven counts of computer hacking and extortion. He is considered one of the most dangerous hackers of recent years. The in...
In Nepal, people are dying for social media! 19 people lost their lives trying to get Facebook back
In a dramatic reversal, Nepal has lifted the nationwide social media blackout imposed last week after it sparked massive youth protests and caused at least 19 deaths, according to local media. The dec...
Xi Jinping and the Chinese APT’s Ambition
The post-COVID macro political movements, including ongoing conflicts, have prompted a majority of states to shift their medium- to long-term political objectives. Clearly, a paradigm shift has been v...
Salesloft Cyber Attack: Chatbot Drift Temporarily Disabled
Salesloft announced that it would temporarily deactivate its AI-powered chatbot Drift on September 5, after several companies were hit by a massive supply chain attack. The incident resulted in the ma...
Discover the Dark Web: Access, Secrets, and Helpful Links to the Onion Network
The Dark Web is a part of the internet that cannot be reached with standard browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge). To access it, you need to use specific tools like the Tor Browser, which guarantees anonym...
AI A2 detected 102 0-day bugs and created exploits in Android apps for $1.77
Artificial intelligence systems have been criticized for creating confusing vulnerability reports and inundating open-source developers with irrelevant complaints. But researchers at Nanjing Universit...
$16 billion in stolen Apple, Meta, and Google credentials up for sale for $121,000
The Darklab team, Red Hot Cyber‘s community of threat intelligence experts, has identified an ad on the dark web marketplace “Tor Amazon”, the criminal counterpart of the popular e-commerce site on th...
Red Hot Cyber Conference 2026: Sponsorships Open for the Fifth Edition in Rome
The Red Hot Cyber Conference has become a regular event for the Red Hot Cyber community and for anyone working in or interested in the world of digital technologies and cybersecurity. The fifth editio...
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OpenAI has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft to review its partnership, which could lead to the company’s transformation into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). If the trans...

Windows 11 users who have installed the September 2025 Update might think that practically nothing changes. At first glance, KB5065426 looks like a normal small patch that Microsoft distributes to eve...

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Ukrainian Volodymyr Tymoshchuk on seven counts of computer hacking and extortion. He is considered one of the most dangerous hackers of recent years. The in...

In a dramatic reversal, Nepal has lifted the nationwide social media blackout imposed last week after it sparked massive youth protests and caused at least 19 deaths, according to local media. The dec...

The post-COVID macro political movements, including ongoing conflicts, have prompted a majority of states to shift their medium- to long-term political objectives. Clearly, a paradigm shift has been v...
The ChillyHell backdoor returns to threaten macOS systems.
Regulating out-of-office work: a best practice for organizations and beyond.
Apple introduces Memory Integrity Enforcement. Will this be the end of hacking?
Linux in Crisis: Rust Splits Community and Maintainers Leave
Happy Birthday, Super Mario Bros.! 40 years of a game that revolutionized the world.
China Makes Historic Turn: Mandatory Labeling of AI-Created Content

The ChillyHell backdoor returns to threaten macOS systems.
Redazione RHC - September 15th, 2025
Researchers have reported a new surge in activity for ChillyHell, a modular backdoor for macOS that was thought to be dormant for years, but which appears to have infected computers...

Regulating out-of-office work: a best practice for organizations and beyond.
Stefano Gazzella - September 15th, 2025
When talking about information security, we must first take a breath and realize that we need to dive deeper than just computer systems and directly expressed information. It concerns all...

Apple introduces Memory Integrity Enforcement. Will this be the end of hacking?
Redazione RHC - September 15th, 2025
Apple officially introduced Memory Integrity Enforcement, a new memory protection system that the company calls the most significant advancement ever made in consumer operating system security. It took five years...

Linux in Crisis: Rust Splits Community and Maintainers Leave
Redazione RHC - September 14th, 2025
The Linux world and its surroundings are going through turbulent times. Developers are debating how to integrate Rust into the kernel while key contributors are leaving. Against the backdrop of...

Happy Birthday, Super Mario Bros.! 40 years of a game that revolutionized the world.
Redazione RHC - September 14th, 2025
It's been exactly four decades since the release of the legendary Super Mario Bros., a project that changed the video game industry forever and became the symbol of an entire...

China Makes Historic Turn: Mandatory Labeling of AI-Created Content
Redazione RHC - September 14th, 2025
A series of Chinese national standards came into force on September 1st, aimed at redefining rules, responsibilities, and controls in increasingly strategic technology and consumer sectors. The State Administration for...
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