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    Douglas Engelbart was born today: the man who saw and invented the digital future.
    Massimiliano Brolli | Culture | 30/01/2026

    Sometimes, when you think about it, you wonder how we take the world around us for granted. Like, we click, scroll, type, and it all seems so natural, as if it’s always been there. But no, there was s...

    WhatsApp gets a makeover: “Paranoia” mode arrives (and no, it’s not for everyone).
    Silvia Felici | Cyber News | 29/01/2026

    WhatsApp has decided to toughen up. Not for everyone, not always, but when needed. The decision comes against a backdrop of a now-familiar climate: increasing cyber attacks, espionage that no longer m...

    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...

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

    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
    Iran Protests Escalate as Reza Pahlavi Calls for Action Against Government 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
    Taiwan Citizens Accused in China of Smuggling and Cable Sabotage 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
    QR Code Phishing via HTML: New Attack Vector Emerges 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
    Veeam Backup Vulnerability: Critical RCE Flaw Discovered – Update Now 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
    GoBruteforcer Botnet Exploits AI-Generated Server Configs, Targets Crypto 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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    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...

    - December 23rd, 2025

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    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...

    - December 23rd, 2025

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    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...

    - December 23rd, 2025

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    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...

    - December 23rd, 2025

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    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,...

    - December 23rd, 2025

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    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...

    - December 23rd, 2025

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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...

    - December 23rd, 2025

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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...

    - December 23rd, 2025

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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...

    - December 23rd, 2025

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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...

    - December 22nd, 2025

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    Douglas Engelbart was born today: the man who saw and invented the digital future.
    Massimiliano Brolli - 30/01/2026

    Sometimes, when you think about it, you wonder how we take the world around us for granted. Like, we click, scroll, type, and it all seems so natural, as if it’s always been there. But…

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    WhatsApp gets a makeover: “Paranoia” mode arrives (and no, it’s not for everyone).
    Silvia Felici - 29/01/2026

    WhatsApp has decided to toughen up. Not for everyone, not always, but when needed. The decision comes against a backdrop of a now-familiar climate: increasing cyber attacks, espionage that no longer makes headlines but continues…

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    Beware of “I am not a robot”: the malware trap that uses Google Calendar.
    Bajram Zeqiri - 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 people have created a…

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    A blow to the heart of cybercrime: RAMP taken offline. The “temple” of ransomware falls!
    Bajram Zeqiri - 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 after the domain associated…

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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…