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WhatsApp Device Fingerprinting: New Measures Against Privacy Threats Cybercrime

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...
Redazione RHC - 6 January 2026
Microsoft Removes Phone Activation for Windows and Office Cybercrime

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...
Redazione RHC - 6 January 2026
PS5 BootROM Key Leaked, Sony’s Security Compromised Cybercrime

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...
Redazione RHC - 5 January 2026
China Achieves Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough with Microchip Cybercrime

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...
Redazione RHC - 5 January 2026
Critical GNU Wget2 Vulnerability Exposes Users to File Overwrite Attacks Cybercrime

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...
Redazione RHC - 5 January 2026
Windows 11 Performance Test: Surprising Results with Windows 8.1 Cybercrime

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...
Redazione RHC - 5 January 2026

The Rise of Digital Walls: How National Sovereignty Threatens Global Internet

As we always report on these pages, nations are pushing for the development of domestic software and hardware devices, that is, technologies developed within the nation that are more easily...
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Critical MongoDB Vulnerability Exposed: CVE-2025-14847

A critical vulnerability has been identified in MongoDB, one of the most widely used NoSQL database platforms globally. This security flaw, tracked under CVE-2025-14847, allows attackers to extract sensitive data...
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Smart TV Spying: Major Brands Accused of Collecting User Data

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has charged five major television manufacturers with illegally collecting user data using automatic content recognition (ACR) technology to record what owners watch. The charges concern...
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Phishing Campaigns Exploit File Sharing Services

Researchers at Check Point, a pioneer and global leader in cybersecurity solutions, have discovered a phishing campaign in which attackers pose as file-sharing and electronic signature services to send financially-themed...
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RansomHouse Ransomware Upgraded: Enhanced Encryption Threat

The group behind RansomHouse, one of the most notorious ransomware distribution services, has strengthened the technical capabilities of its attacks. According to experts, the cybercriminals have added an updated encryption...
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Cyber Attacks on the Rise: Wiper Malware and Data Destruction in 2025

According to BI.ZONE, by 2025, attackers will increasingly opt for total destruction of corporate infrastructure rather than encryption . This refers to scenarios in which, after penetrating a network, attackers...
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MS13-089 Ransomware: Double Extortion Without Encryption

MS13-089 opens a leak site on the dark web, exposes the first data and adopts a double extortion strategy without encryption. A brand built on an old Microsoft ID For...
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San Francisco Power Outage Exposes Waymo Self-Driving Car Vulnerabilities

A massive power outage in San Francisco has disrupted self-driving vehicle traffic. Waymo self-driving vehicles have been spotted on city streets, stopped at intersections with their emergency lights on. The...
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Microsoft Shifts Activation Process: What It Means for Air-Gapped Systems

In the past, many users and system administrators have relied on Microsoft's telephone activation service to manage installations in specific contexts. During the Windows 8 era, MAK ( Multiple Activation...
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PuTTY Under Siege: Hackers Exploit Popular Client for SSH Attacks

Hackers love to exploit the most innocuous tools to infiltrate their targets' networks, and we all know this. And in this case, they're targeting PuTTY , the popular SSH client....
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