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The Great Firewall in the Spotlight: The Leak Revealing the Industrialization of Chinese Censorship
Edited by Luca Stivali and Olivia Terragni. On September 11, 2025, what can be defined as the largest leak ever suffered by the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exploded in the media, massively and massi...
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...
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Edited by Luca Stivali and Olivia Terragni. On September 11, 2025, what can be defined as the largest leak ever suffered by the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exploded in the media, massively and massi...

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...
A critical bug in FortiDDoS-F leads to the execution of unauthorized commands
In Nepal, people are dying for social media! 19 people lost their lives trying to get Facebook back
Microsoft joins the World Nuclear Association to support nuclear energy
Lethal Race Condition for Linux: The Trick That Turns a POSIX Signal Into a Weapon
It’s Not Your PC’s Weak Link, It’s Your Mind: Exercises to Defend Yourself from Hackers
Google pushes AI as the default search, risking blackouts for independent publishers and blogs.

A critical bug in FortiDDoS-F leads to the execution of unauthorized commands
Redazione RHC - September 9th, 2025
A security flaw has been discovered in Fortinet's FortiDDoS-F product line that could allow a privileged attacker to execute prohibited commands. The vulnerability, classified as CVE-2024-45325, involves an operating system...

In Nepal, people are dying for social media! 19 people lost their lives trying to get Facebook back
Redazione RHC - September 9th, 2025
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...

Microsoft joins the World Nuclear Association to support nuclear energy
Redazione RHC - September 9th, 2025
Microsoft Corporation, according to Datacenter Dynamics, has joined the World Nuclear Association (WNA), an international nonprofit organization based in London that promotes nuclear energy. The World Nuclear Association was founded...

Lethal Race Condition for Linux: The Trick That Turns a POSIX Signal Into a Weapon
Redazione RHC - September 9th, 2025
An independent researcher named Alexander Popov has presented a new technique for exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel, assigned the identifier CVE-2024-50264. This use-after-free error in the AF_VSOCK...

It’s Not Your PC’s Weak Link, It’s Your Mind: Exercises to Defend Yourself from Hackers
Daniela Farina - September 9th, 2025
Welcome to our second installment! Last week, we explored the battlefield of the human mind, understanding how the coevolution of hackers and defenders is a game of psychological chess, and...

Google pushes AI as the default search, risking blackouts for independent publishers and blogs.
Redazione RHC - September 9th, 2025
Google wants to make it easier for users to access AI Mode by allowing them to set it as their default search (instead of traditional links). AI Mode is a...
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