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    The world’s first humanoid robot store has opened in China. Will we be ready?
    Carolina Vivianti | innovation | 30/01/2026

    At ten o’clock in the morning, in Wuhan, two 1.3-meter-tall humanoid robots begin moving with precision. They turn, jump, and follow a rhythm. It’s the opening signal for the country’s first 7S humano...

    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...

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    China’s Humanoid Robot Industry Booms with UBtech’s Walker S2 Cyber News

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    A video, hundreds of humanoid robots, and a reaction that went viral. When UBtech demonstrated its S2 Walkers moving in...
    Redazione RHC - December 28, 2025
    Cyber Criminals Recruit Insiders: Companies at Risk of Internal Threats Cyber News

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    The cybercriminal community is rapidly increasing its interest in recruiting personnel from within companies . Instead of sophisticated external attacks,...
    Agostino Pellegrino - December 27, 2025
    US Data Center Battery Dependency: A Growing Concern for AI and Defense Cyber News

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    In Northern Virginia, along what has come to be called the “data center corridor,” stand massive, windowless facilities that form...
    Redazione RHC - December 27, 2025
    Uzbekistan License Plate Surveillance System Exposed Online Cyber News

    Uzbekistan License Plate Surveillance System Exposed Online

    Cybersecurity specialist Anurag Sen discovered that Uzbekistan's license plate recognition system database was freely accessible online: anyone could access all...
    Redazione RHC - December 27, 2025
    Interpol Operation Sentinel Cracks Down on Cybercrime with 574 Arrests Cyber News

    Interpol Operation Sentinel Cracks Down on Cybercrime with 574 Arrests

    Interpol conducted Operation Sentinel, an international operation that resulted in the arrest of 574 people and the recovery of $3...
    Agostino Pellegrino - December 27, 2025
    Villager Framework: AI-Powered Penetration Testing Tool Cyber News

    Villager Framework: AI-Powered Penetration Testing Tool

    Straiker's AI Research (STAR) team has identified Villager, a native AI-based penetration testing framework developed by the Chinese group Cyberspike...
    Redazione RHC - December 26, 2025
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    OSINT Investigation: Uncovering Digital Evidence

    We live in an age of almost mandatory transparency, an age in which every single digital action we take, be it a simple tap on a screen, an online search,...

    - December 8th, 2025

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    Europe’s Digital Sovereignty: The Risks of Relying on Non-European Tech

    In recent months, two seemingly unrelated events have highlighted an uncomfortable truth: Europe no longer controls its own digital infrastructure . And this dependence, in an increasingly tense geopolitical landscape,...

    - December 7th, 2025

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    Apple’s Major Shake-Up: Johny Srouji Leaves as Senior VP of Hardware Technologies

    Apple is going through a period of major leadership changes , with the departure of key figures who have contributed significantly to the company's technological development. The latest executive to...

    - December 7th, 2025

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    Cloudflare Outage: 25 Minutes of Chaos Due to React Server Issue

    Cloudflare experienced a significant outage on the morning of December 5, 2025, when at 8:47 a.m. UTC, a portion of its infrastructure began experiencing internal errors. The incident, which lasted...

    - December 7th, 2025

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    Microsoft CEO on AI Challenges

    In a conversation with Matthias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella acknowledged that the Redmond-based company's impressive growth is currently a limiting factor in the competition in...

    - December 7th, 2025

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    Pat Gelsinger on Quantum Computing Impact on AI Future

    Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has shared a series of assessments on the future of computing, and in particular, the evolution of artificial intelligence. In an interview with the Financial...

    - December 7th, 2025

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    AI-Generated Scams: New Threats with Deepfake Photos and Videos

    Criminals are increasingly using photos and videos from public sources to pass them off as evidence of an alleged kidnapping. The FBI warns that criminals are altering the images they...

    - December 7th, 2025

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    Microsoft Windows LNK Vulnerability Exploited by Hackers

    Experts have discovered that in the summer of 2025, Microsoft patched a dangerous vulnerability in Windows that had been actively exploited by at least 11 hacker groups, including North Korean...

    - December 6th, 2025

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    Apache Tika Vulnerability CVE-2025-66516: Critical XXE Attack Risk

    A critical vulnerability has been published in Apache Tika that could allow an XML external entity injection attack, known as XXE . The vulnerability, classified as CVE-2025-66516, has a CVE...

    - December 6th, 2025

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    China Accuses US of Cyber Attacks, Denies Involvement in Brickstorm Malware

    A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Canada responded to a reporter's question about the outcry in Canada over so-called "Chinese cyber attacks." A reporter asked : Recently, the Canadian...

    - December 6th, 2025

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    Carolina Vivianti - 30/01/2026

    At ten o’clock in the morning, in Wuhan, two 1.3-meter-tall humanoid robots begin moving with precision. They turn, jump, and follow a rhythm. It’s the opening signal for the country’s first 7S humanoid robot store,…

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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…