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The ransomware landscape is changing. The most exposed actors—LockBit, Hunters International, and Trigona—have paid the price for overexposure, including international operations, infiltrations, d...
A critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-9501, has been discovered in the popular WordPress plugin W3 Total Cache . This vulnerability allows the execution of arbitrary PHP commands on the server without au...
Exactly 40 years ago, on November 20, 1985, Microsoft released Windows 1.0 , the first version of Windows, which attempted to transform the then-personal computer from a machine with a monotonous comm...
In recent months, a new cyber operations infrastructure has been developing in the United States, in which automated agents are becoming not just a support tool, but a full-fledged participant in offe...
The scale of the leak, described by a team from the University of Vienna , demonstrates how dangerous the familiar contact search function of popular messaging apps can be. WhatsApp has always emphasi...
Slammer, the first worm to use a bug that hasn’t been fixed for six months.
The Story of the First Keylogger: How Hidden Keyboard Control Came to Be
A Brief History of Malware: The Evolution of the Species from Its Origins to the Present Day
What Are Large Language Models? Behind the Scenes of Artificial Intelligence
Let’s discover the differences between a Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithm
Hallucination in Artificial Intelligence: Between Strange and Disturbing Errors
Slammer, the first worm to use a bug that hasn’t been fixed for six months.
Redazione RHC - November 12th, 2025
Many years have passed since the SQL Slammer worm spread uncontrollably on January 25, 2003. It was one of the fastest-spreading malware in history , and with this article we...
The Story of the First Keylogger: How Hidden Keyboard Control Came to Be
Redazione RHC - November 12th, 2025
We all know Bruce Schneier , a renowned cryptography and computer security expert, member of the board of directors of the International Association for Cryptological Research and a renowned speaker,...
A Brief History of Malware: The Evolution of the Species from Its Origins to the Present Day
Redazione RHC - November 12th, 2025
At first we talked about “viruses” , then “worms” appeared, followed by “macro viruses”. These were soon joined by other types of hostile software such as keyloggers or lockers. At...
What Are Large Language Models? Behind the Scenes of Artificial Intelligence
Marcello Politi - November 12th, 2025
In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence (AI), one term has emerged with increasing importance: Language Model, especially large language models, then called Large Language Models. You've likely already...
Let’s discover the differences between a Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithm
Marcello Politi - November 12th, 2025
In the world of artificial intelligence, we often hear two terms: machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL). Both are methods for implementing AI through the training of machine learning...
Hallucination in Artificial Intelligence: Between Strange and Disturbing Errors
Simone Raponi - November 12th, 2025
Hallucinating, for a human, means perceiving things that aren't actually present in our environment. When we talk about "hallucinations" in artificial intelligence (AI), we're referring to a situation in which...
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