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Iran Protests Escalate as Reza Pahlavi Calls for Action Against Government
Veeam Backup Vulnerability: Critical RCE Flaw Discovered – Update Now
When Attack Discovery Becomes Automated, Detection Stops Scaling
CVE-2026-21858: n8n Vulnerability Exposes Thousands of Servers to RCE
Disable Windows 11 AI Features Easily with RemoveWindowsAI Tool
DevSecOps: Integrating Security into Your Development Process
WhatsApp Device Fingerprinting: New Measures Against Privacy Threats
PS5 BootROM Key Leaked, Sony’s Security Compromised
Windows 11 Performance Test: Surprising Results with Windows 8.1
Long-Lived Technologies: COBOL, C, SQL, and Legacy Systems
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DevSecOps: Integrating Security into Your Development Process Cybercrime

DevSecOps: Integrating Security into Your Development Process

When it comes to application security, there's rarely a single problem. It's almost always a chain of small flaws, poor...
Massimiliano Brolli - 7 January 2026
Critical RCE Vulnerability in D-Link DSL Routers – Update Now Cybercrime

Critical RCE Vulnerability in D-Link DSL Routers – Update Now

A critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw in older D-Link DSL routers has been identified as CVE-2026-0625, with a CVSS...
Redazione RHC - 7 January 2026
Critical n8n Vulnerability: Update Now to Prevent RCE Attacks Vulnerability

Critical n8n Vulnerability: Update Now to Prevent RCE Attacks

n8n, the “fair-code” workflow automation platform beloved by engineering teams for its combination of low-code speed and programming flexibility, has...
Redazione RHC - 7 January 2026
Ledger Data Breach: Global-e Hack Exposes Customer Info Cybercrime

Ledger Data Breach: Global-e Hack Exposes Customer Info

Hackers have infiltrated Global-e's systems, and some Ledger customers are now at risk of receiving highly convincing scam emails. Ledger...
Redazione RHC - 7 January 2026
LED Data Transmission System for Smart Traffic innovation

LED Data Transmission System for Smart Traffic

Researchers at Tokyo Polytechnic University have presented a simple and cost-effective wireless data transmission system using LEDs. The project boasts...
Redazione RHC - 7 January 2026
Microsoft Shifts to Rust: AI-Driven Code Transformation by 2030 Cybercrime

Microsoft Shifts to Rust: AI-Driven Code Transformation by 2030

Microsoft has launched one of the most ambitious code transformation programs ever announced in the software industry: the stated goal...
Redazione RHC - 7 January 2026
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Patchwork Group Unleashes StreamSpy Malware with WebSocket C2 Channel

- January 6th, 2026

The Patchwork hacker group, also known as Dropping Elephant and Maha Grass , has returned to the spotlight after a series of targeted attacks on Pakistani defense facilities. In their...
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WhatsApp Device Fingerprinting: New Measures Against Privacy Threats

- January 6th, 2026

WhatsApp, Meta's messaging app with over 3 billion monthly active users, has begun introducing technical changes to mitigate several privacy vulnerabilities on user devices . The fixes, identified through independent...
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Microsoft Removes Phone Activation for Windows and Office

- January 6th, 2026

Microsoft has finally removed the option to activate Windows and Office over the phone . While the company still includes this method in its support materials, it no longer works...
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PS5 BootROM Key Leaked, Sony’s Security Compromised

- January 5th, 2026

A recent incident saw an anonymous hacker leak a crucial security key used by Sony to safeguard the integrity of the chain of trust in the PlayStation 5 console. This...
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China Achieves Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough with Microchip

- January 5th, 2026

For years, quantum computers have seemed like a futuristic technology: on paper, they can solve problems that classical machines can’t handle in a reasonable time, but in reality they constantly...
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Critical GNU Wget2 Vulnerability Exposes Users to File Overwrite Attacks

- January 5th, 2026

A serious vulnerability has been discovered in the popular GNU command-line downloader Wget2 , which allows attackers to overwrite files on the victim's computer without their knowledge or consent. The...
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Windows 11 Performance Test: Surprising Results with Windows 8.1

- January 5th, 2026

A comparison test across six generations of Windows was conducted by YouTube channel TrigrZolt , which unexpectedly revealed a clear winner: Windows 8.1. Windows 11, on the other hand, performed...
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PentestAgent: Revolutionizing Penetration Testing with AI-Powered Tools

- January 5th, 2026

PentestAgent is another new open source project developed by the GH05TCREW group that aims to support penetration testing activities through the use of agents based on language models. The tool...
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US Treasury Removes Sanctions on Intellexa Spyware Developers

- January 5th, 2026

The U.S. Treasury Department unexpectedly removed from its sanctions list three individuals previously accused of ties to Intellexa , the developer of the Predator spyware . The decision was made...
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Rue Language: Revolutionizing System Programming with AI

- January 5th, 2026

Veteran software developer Steve Klabnik, who helped create Rust and Ruby on Rails, has started work on a new programming language called Rue . The name may seem ambiguous— it...
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Iran Protests Escalate as Reza Pahlavi Calls for Action Against Government
Redazione RHC - 09/01/2026

Iranian protesters chanted and marched through the streets until Friday morning, following a call from exiled former Prince Reza Pahlavi to demonstrate, despite the Iranian theocracy cutting off the country from the internet and international…

Immagine del sitoCybercrime
Veeam Backup Vulnerability: Critical RCE Flaw Discovered – Update Now
Redazione RHC - 08/01/2026

Backups are generally considered the last line of defense, but this week Veeam reminded us that backup systems themselves can become entry points for attacks. The company released security updates for Backup & Replication ,…

Immagine del sitoCybercrime
When Attack Discovery Becomes Automated, Detection Stops Scaling
Alexander Rogan - 08/01/2026

For much of the past two decades, cybersecurity has been built on a simple assumption: malicious activity can be detected, analysed, and responded to before meaningful damage occurs. This assumption shaped everything from SOC design…

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CVE-2026-21858: n8n Vulnerability Exposes Thousands of Servers to RCE
Redazione RHC - 08/01/2026

The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2026-21858, which we recently reported on, affects approximately 100,000 servers worldwide, threatening to expose proprietary API keys, customer databases, and AI workflows. The vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 10, has…

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Disable Windows 11 AI Features Easily with RemoveWindowsAI Tool
Redazione RHC - 07/01/2026

A new open-source script allows Windows 11 users to widely disable the operating system’s built-in artificial intelligence features . The project, developed by Zoicware , is called RemoveWindowsAI and aims to offer greater control over…