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VS Code Extensions Infected with Sophisticated Malware via Typosquatting Cybercrime

VS Code Extensions Infected with Sophisticated Malware via Typosquatting

A sophisticated malware campaign has been detected within the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) marketplace. Researchers at ReversingLabs (RL) have...
Redazione RHC - 15 December 2025
NVIDIA Merlin Security Update: Fixing High-Severity Vulnerabilities Cybercrime

NVIDIA Merlin Security Update: Fixing High-Severity Vulnerabilities

NVIDIA has released a significant security update for its Merlin framework, addressing several high-severity vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities could allow attackers...
Redazione RHC - 15 December 2025
How Profanity Varies Across Social Media and Cultures Cybercrime

How Profanity Varies Across Social Media and Cultures

Americans are the most likely to swear on social media, but Australians are more creative in their use of the...
Redazione RHC - 15 December 2025
GhostFrame Phishing Kit: New Stealthy PhaaS Threat Emerges Cybercrime

GhostFrame Phishing Kit: New Stealthy PhaaS Threat Emerges

Barracuda has released details of a new stealthy, evasive phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) kit that hides malicious content within web page iframes...
Redazione RHC - 14 December 2025
WhatsApp: all it takes is a phone number to know when you sleep, go out, or come home Cybercrime

WhatsApp: all it takes is a phone number to know when you sleep, go out, or come home

A tool has been released that allows for the discreet monitoring of WhatsApp and Signal user activity using just a...
Redazione RHC - 14 December 2025
Cyber Geopolitics: How Tech Becomes a Global Battleground Cybercrime

Cyber Geopolitics: How Tech Becomes a Global Battleground

Over the past two years, cyber has ceased to be a " technical " dimension of the conflict and has...
Roberto Villani - 14 December 2025

ChatGPT to Introduce Targeted Ads, Changing Monetization Strategy

Until now, ChatGPT has been ad-free: no banners, no hidden promotions. Even the paid versions worked without pushy offers. But that could change soon. As reported by user X (formerly...
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GitLab Security Updates Fix High-Severity Vulnerabilities CVE-2024-9183

GitLab has released critical security updates for its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) to address several high-severity vulnerabilities . The newly released patches 18.6.1, 18.5.3, and 18.4.5 address...
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Apache SkyWalking Vulnerability Exposes Users to XSS Attacks

A vulnerability was recently discovered in Apache SkyWalking , a popular application performance monitoring tool, that attackers could exploit to execute malicious scripts and launch cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks ....
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Bloody Wolf Attacks Central Asia with NetSupport RAT via Java Exploits

Group-IB specialists have recorded new attacks by the Bloody Wolf hacker group, which has been targeting Kyrgyzstan since June 2025 and has expanded its operations to Uzbekistan since October. The...
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WhatsApp Blocked in Russia: Messaging App Faces Crackdown

The Russian Federation's Roskomnadzor has announced that it continues to impose systematic restrictions on the messaging app WhatsApp due to violations of Russian law. According to the agency, the service...
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CEO Scam: How to Protect Your Company from Business Email Compromise

This morning, Paragon Sec was contacted by an Italian company that had been the victim of a new fraud attempt known as the CEO Scam . The accounting department received...
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Shai-Hulud Worm Spreads Beyond npm, Attacks Maven

The Shai-Hulud worm has spread beyond the npm ecosystem and was discovered in Maven . Socket specialists noticed an infected package on Maven Central containing the same malicious components used...
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11.7% of jobs could be replaced by artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is currently capable of performing work equivalent to 11.7% of US employment . And not just in theory: in terms of monetary value, this value is already comparable...
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The market for “controlling” people is taking off on the Dark Web.

BI.ZONE experts analyzed over 3,500 advertisements on darknet platforms offering dossiers on specific individuals, known as "probiv" (finding). One in five offers (21%) promises a complete profile of an individual....
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God is in the Cloud: They Hacked Your Brain and You Liked It

We're in the age of paid deception. Your every click is a private referendum in which they, the algorithms, always win. And they're never wrong: they observe you, profile you,...
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Net-NTLMv1 Exploitation: Rainbow Tables for Modern Attacks
Redazione RHC - 18/01/2026

Mandiant has released a large set of rainbow tables dedicated to Net-NTLMv1 with the aim of concretely demonstrating how insecure this authentication protocol has become. Although Net-NTLMv1 has been deprecated for years and its weaknesses…

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Redazione RHC - 18/01/2026

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Redazione RHC - 17/01/2026

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Gootloader Malware Returns with Enhanced Evasion Techniques
Redazione RHC - 17/01/2026

After a long period of silence, the Gootloader downloader malware has returned to the forefront. Last November, the Huntress team detected a new campaign signaling the return of a developer previously associated with the Vanilla…

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VoidLink Malware: Advanced Linux Framework Targets Cloud Infrastructures
Redazione RHC - 16/01/2026

Check Point researchers have discovered a new Linux infection framework distinguished by its advanced modular architecture and wide range of features. The malware has been dubbed VoidLink . The framework is composed of over 30…