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The psychology of passwords starts right here: trying to understand people before systems. Welcome to “The Mind Behind Passwords,” the column that looks at cybersecurity. From a different perspect...
New details emerge from an Amazon Threat Intelligence report that highlight an alarming shift in Russian government-backed cyber operations. High-level 0-day exploits, often attributed to state-sponso...
A new version, 8.8.9, of the popular text editor Notepad++, has been released by its developers, fixing a flaw in the automatic update system . This issue came to light after some users and investigat...
A recent study by SentinelLabs sheds new light on the roots of the hacker group known as “Salt Typhoon ,” which carried out one of the most audacious espionage operations of the past decade. First...
Shannon acts as a penetration tester who doesn’t just report vulnerabilities, but launches actual exploits. Shannon’s goal is to breach your web application’s security before anyone with malicio...
Shannon: Autonomous Penetration Testing with AI
Protecting Loved Ones from Scams and Financial Abuse
Critical Windows Vulnerability CVE-2025-59230 Exposed
Women in Cybersecurity: Breaking Down Barriers and Stereotypes
Storm-0249 Uses DLL Sideloading in Highly Targeted Attacks
VS Code Extensions Infected with Sophisticated Malware via Typosquatting
Shannon: Autonomous Penetration Testing with AI
Redazione RHC - December 14th, 2025
Shannon acts as a penetration tester who doesn't just report vulnerabilities, but launches actual exploits. Shannon's goal is to breach your web application's security before anyone with malicious intent can....
Protecting Loved Ones from Scams and Financial Abuse
Redazione RHC - December 14th, 2025
Hi guys,My name is Giorgio , I'm 58 years old, I've always worked as an administrative technician, and in life, I've always been the " rational " one in the...
Critical Windows Vulnerability CVE-2025-59230 Exposed
Redazione RHC - December 14th, 2025
Windows services dedicated to remote connections have always been an inexhaustible source of "satisfaction" for those involved in cybersecurity, revealing vulnerabilities of enormous impact. Among the most famous examples is...
Women in Cybersecurity: Breaking Down Barriers and Stereotypes
Ada Spinelli - December 14th, 2025
The scene is always the same: monitors lit, dashboards full of alerts, logs scrolling too quickly, an anxious customer on the other end of the call. You sit down, look...
Storm-0249 Uses DLL Sideloading in Highly Targeted Attacks
Redazione RHC - December 14th, 2025
A well-known initial access broker (IAB) called " Storm-0249 " has changed its operational strategies, using phishing campaigns as well as highly targeted attacks, which exploit the very security tools...
VS Code Extensions Infected with Sophisticated Malware via Typosquatting
Redazione RHC - December 14th, 2025
A sophisticated malware campaign has been detected within the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) marketplace. Researchers at ReversingLabs (RL) have identified 19 malicious extensions that successfully evaded standard detection methods...
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