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Beware of “I am not a robot”: the malware trap that uses Google Calendar.

Bajram Zeqiri | Cybercrime | 29/01/2026

A new threat is lurking, exploiting our greatest weakness: habit. How many times, in fact, do you find yourself clicking on verification boxes without thinking twice? Now, it seems that malicious peop...

A blow to the heart of cybercrime: RAMP taken offline. The “temple” of ransomware falls!

Bajram Zeqiri | Cybercrime | 28/01/2026

The RAMP (Russian Anonymous Marketplace) forum, one of the main hubs of the international cybercrime underground, has been officially shut down and seized by US law enforcement . The news emerged afte...

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...

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Cloudflare Hit with €14M Fine for Failing to Block Pirate Content

The Italian Communications Regulatory Authority (AGCOM) has imposed an administrative fine exceeding €14 million on Cloudflare Inc. for failure to...

Redazione RHC - 9 January 2026

Cyber News

Iran Protests Escalate as Reza Pahlavi Calls for Action Against Government

Iranian protesters chanted and marched through the streets until Friday morning, following a call from exiled former Prince Reza Pahlavi...

Redazione RHC - 9 January 2026

Cyber News

Taiwan Citizens Accused in China of Smuggling and Cable Sabotage

Chinese authorities have formally charged two Taiwanese citizens with involvement in a smuggling operation linked to an incident in February...

Sandro Sana - 9 January 2026

Cyber News

QR Code Phishing via HTML: New Attack Vector Emerges

We know that criminal hackers always manage to surprise us, and this time too they surprise us with the innovation...

Silvia Felici - 8 January 2026

Vulnerability

Veeam Backup Vulnerability: Critical RCE Flaw Discovered – Update Now

Backups are generally considered the last line of defense, but this week Veeam reminded us that backup systems themselves can...

Agostino Pellegrino - 8 January 2026

Cyber News

GoBruteforcer Botnet Exploits AI-Generated Server Configs, Targets Crypto

The GoBruteforcer botnet has been discovered to be exploiting a surprisingly current weakness: the widespread reuse of AI-generated server configurations....

Sandro Sana - 8 January 2026

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Critical Net-SNMP Vulnerability Exposes Networks to RCE Attacks

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the Net-SNMP software suite, widely used globally for network management and monitoring. The flaw, classified as CVE-2025-68615, has a CVSS score of 9.8,...

A backdoor in NVIDIA code. Three 9.8 bugs plague AI and robotics development systems

When it comes to cybersecurity, you can never be too careful. Furthermore, when we talk about backdoors (or alleged ones), the question that follows is: who inserted them? Was it...

Australia Boosts Papua New Guinea’s Digital Infra with New Undersea Cable

A new undersea cable funded by Australia under a recent mutual defence agreement with Papua New Guinea is set to strengthen the island country's digital infrastructure and ensure continuity of...

China Issues First Level 3 Autonomous Driving Licenses, Paving Way for Self-Driving Cars

On December 23, the Traffic Management Bureau of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau officially issued the first batch of Level 3 autonomous driving license plates to three intelligent vehicles....

Nvidia H200 Chip Shipments to China Set to Begin

Nvidia has informed its customers in China of its intention to begin shipping the first H200 chip, the company's second-most powerful AI accelerator, before New Year's Eve. The information was...

La Poste Hit by Pro-Russian DDoS Attack During Peak Holiday Season

According to internal sources at RedHotCyber , the digital offensive that is causing problems for the National Postal System in France has been officially claimed by the pro-Russian hacker collective...

Spotify Web Scraping: Anna’s Archive Scrapes 300TB of Music Library

Activists and hackers at Anna's Archive have reportedly combed nearly the entire music library of the largest streaming service, Spotify. They claim to have collected metadata for 256 million tracks...

CVE-2025-47761: FortiClient VPN Zero-Day Exploit Lets Privilege Escalation

The following analysis examines the attack vector for CVE-2025-47761 , a vulnerability found in the Fortips_74.sys kernel driver used by FortiClient VPN for Windows. The core of the vulnerability lies...

Ukrainian Hacker Charged in Major Ransomware Attacks

A Ukrainian man implicated in a series of ransomware attacks has been found guilty in the United States. These cybercrimes affected companies in several countries, including the United States, Canada,...

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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Cybercrime

Beware of “I am not a robot”: the malware trap that uses Google Calendar.

Bajram Zeqiri - 29/01/2026

Cybercrime

A blow to the heart of cybercrime: RAMP taken offline. The “temple” of ransomware falls!

Bajram Zeqiri - 28/01/2026

Cyberpolitics

Digital Autonomy: France Says Goodbye to Teams and Zoom by 2027

Silvia Felici - 28/01/2026

Cyber News

And let the phishing begin! Microsoft is taking action against a zero-day exploit already exploited in Office

Pietro Melillo - 27/01/2026

Cyber 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…