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    Digital Autonomy: France Says Goodbye to Teams and Zoom by 2027
    Silvia Felici | Cyberpolitics | 28/01/2026

    This isn’t the first initiative to emerge on this front recently. Indeed, we’ve heard several of them, one after the other. And it’s almost inevitable: technological autonomy and national security are...

    And let the phishing begin! Microsoft is taking action against a zero-day exploit already exploited in Office
    Pietro Melillo | Cyber News | 27/01/2026

    Once again, Microsoft was forced to quickly fix some flaws. The company has released unscheduled patches for Microsoft Office, addressing a dangerous zero-day vulnerability that has already been explo...

    When Malware Hides in Videos! The PixelCode Technique Breaks the Rules
    Marcello Filacchioni | Cybercrime | 26/01/2026

    PixelCode began as a research project exploring a hidden technique for storing binary data within images or videos . Instead of leaving a plaintext executable, the file is converted into pixel data, t...

    CISA alert: Exploit underway against VMware vCenter. Risk of RCE without authentication.
    Manuel Roccon | Cyber News | 25/01/2026

    The critical vulnerability recently added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities (KEVs) affects the Broadcom VMware vCenter Server an...

    “I Stole 120,000 Bitcoins”: The Confession of the Bitfinex Hacker Who Now Wants to Defend Cyberspace
    Agostino Pellegrino | Cyber News | 25/01/2026

    The story ofIlya Lichtenstein, the hacker responsible for one of the largest cyber attacks ever carried out against cryptocurrencies, reads like an episode of a TV series, yet it is absolutely real. A...

    NoName057(16) hits Italy 487 times in the last 3 months: the DDoS wave does not stop
    Marcello Filacchioni | Cyber News | 24/01/2026

    Italy has confirmed itself as one of the main targets of the DDoS attack campaign carried out by the hacktivist group NoName057(16) . According to what was declared directly by the collective, our cou...

    BlueNoroff: The Hacker Group Revolutionizing Cybercrime
    Marcello Filacchioni | Cyber News | 23/01/2026

    The BlueNoroff hacker group has long since transformed cybercrime into a high-tech business, with tens of millions of dollars, cryptocurrency assets, and entire financial ecosystems at stake. A report...

    Nearly 2,000 bugs in 100 dating apps: How your data can be stolen
    Agostino Pellegrino | Cyber News | 23/01/2026

    A study of 100 dating apps revealed a disturbing picture: nearly 2,000 vulnerabilities were detected, 17% of which were classified as critical. The analysis was conducted by AppSec Solutions. The stud...

    MacSync: The macOS malware that empties your wallet… after weeks
    Massimiliano Brolli | Cyber News | 23/01/2026

    A new malware campaign has emerged in the macOS world, one that relies not on sophisticated exploits, but on good old-fashioned social engineering. It’s powered by the MacSync malware, distributed usi...

    PurpleBravo’s Contagious Interview: Malware Campaign Targets Global Firms
    Sandro Sana | Cyber News | 22/01/2026

    For over a year, the North Korean group PurpleBravo has been running a targeted malware campaign called “Contagious Interview,” using fake job interviews to attack companies in Europe, Asia, the Middl...

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    24-Year-Old Hacker Breaches US Supreme Court Database Cyber News

    24-Year-Old Hacker Breaches US Supreme Court Database

    Do you remember the 24-year-old hacker Carmelo Miano and the breaches of the Naples Prosecutor's Office's accounts and computer systems?...
    Redazione RHC - 14 January 2026
    Cyberattack Hits Belgian Hospital AZ Monica, Ransomware Used Cyber News

    Cyberattack Hits Belgian Hospital AZ Monica, Ransomware Used

    In the early morning hours of January 13, one of Belgium's leading hospitals suddenly found itself nearly paralyzed. AZ Monica,...
    Redazione RHC - 14 January 2026
    Meta Shifts Focus from Metaverse to AI-Powered Wearables Cyber News

    Meta Shifts Focus from Metaverse to AI-Powered Wearables

    Meta is launching a new internal reorganization process that directly involves Reality Labs, its virtual reality division, and the Metaverse....
    Redazione RHC - 14 January 2026
    Anthropic’s Claude AI Takes Control with Computer Use Feature Cyber News

    Anthropic’s Claude AI Takes Control with Computer Use Feature

    Anthropic continues to push the evolution of AI-powered assistants, expanding Claude 's capabilities beyond simple text interaction. After establishing its...
    Redazione RHC - 14 January 2026
    China Leads the Way with Level 3 Autonomous Vehicle License Plates Cyber News

    China Leads the Way with Level 3 Autonomous Vehicle License Plates

    On December 23, the Traffic Management Bureau of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau officially issued the first batch of...
    Redazione RHC - 14 January 2026
    Orion Leaks: LockBit’s Shadow in Ransomware Ecosystem Cybercrime

    Orion Leaks: LockBit’s Shadow in Ransomware Ecosystem

    An in-depth look at the infrastructure connections of emerging group Orion Leaks and its possible connection to former RaaS giant...
    Raffaela Crisci - 14 January 2026
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    Rare Earth Elements: US-China Competition Heats Up

    An increasingly pressing question is emerging in the United States: after a long series of bans, restrictions, and closures against China, how will the country guarantee the supply of batteries...

    - January 6th, 2026

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    Patchwork Group Unleashes StreamSpy Malware with WebSocket C2 Channel

    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...

    - January 6th, 2026

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    WhatsApp Device Fingerprinting: New Measures Against Privacy Threats

    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...

    - January 6th, 2026

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    Microsoft Removes Phone Activation for Windows and Office

    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...

    - January 6th, 2026

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    PS5 BootROM Key Leaked, Sony’s Security Compromised

    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...

    - January 5th, 2026

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    China Achieves Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough with Microchip

    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...

    - January 5th, 2026

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    Critical GNU Wget2 Vulnerability Exposes Users to File Overwrite Attacks

    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...

    - January 5th, 2026

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    Windows 11 Performance Test: Surprising Results with Windows 8.1

    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...

    - January 5th, 2026

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    PentestAgent: Revolutionizing Penetration Testing with AI-Powered Tools

    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...

    - January 5th, 2026

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    US Treasury Removes Sanctions on Intellexa Spyware Developers

    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...

    - January 5th, 2026

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    Digital Autonomy: France Says Goodbye to Teams and Zoom by 2027
    Silvia Felici - 28/01/2026

    This isn’t the first initiative to emerge on this front recently. Indeed, we’ve heard several of them, one after the other. And it’s almost inevitable: technological autonomy and national security are becoming an increasingly popular…

    Immagine del sitoCyber News
    And let the phishing begin! Microsoft is taking action against a zero-day exploit already exploited in Office
    Pietro Melillo - 27/01/2026

    Once again, Microsoft was forced to quickly fix some flaws. The company has released unscheduled patches for Microsoft Office, addressing a dangerous zero-day vulnerability that has already been exploited in cyberattacks. The issue, identified as…

    Immagine del sitoCyber News
    ServiceNow Under Attack: How an Email Can Open the Doors to Your Business
    Redazione RHC - 27/01/2026

    The recent discovery of a vulnerability in ServiceNow’s AI platform has shaken the cybersecurity industry. This flaw, characterized by an extremely high severity score, allowed unauthenticated attackers to impersonate any corporate user. To launch the…

    Immagine del sitoCybercrime
    149 Million Accounts Exposed: The Database No One Should Have Seen
    Redazione RHC - 26/01/2026

    A recent leak revealed 149 million logins and passwords exposed online , including accounts for financial services, social media, gaming, and dating sites. The discovery was made by researcher Jeremiah Fowler and shared with ExpressVPN.…

    Immagine del sitoCybercrime
    When Malware Hides in Videos! The PixelCode Technique Breaks the Rules
    Marcello Filacchioni - 26/01/2026

    PixelCode began as a research project exploring a hidden technique for storing binary data within images or videos . Instead of leaving a plaintext executable, the file is converted into pixel data, transforming each byte…