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Women in Cybersecurity: Breaking Down Barriers and Stereotypes Cybercrime

Women in Cybersecurity: Breaking Down Barriers and Stereotypes

The scene is always the same: monitors lit, dashboards full of alerts, logs scrolling too quickly, an anxious customer on...
Ada Spinelli - December 15, 2025
Storm-0249 Uses DLL Sideloading in Highly Targeted Attacks Cybercrime

Storm-0249 Uses DLL Sideloading in Highly Targeted Attacks

A well-known initial access broker (IAB) called " Storm-0249 " has changed its operational strategies, using phishing campaigns as well...
Pietro Melillo - December 15, 2025
VS Code Extensions Infected with Sophisticated Malware via Typosquatting Cyber News

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...
Massimiliano Brolli - December 15, 2025
NVIDIA Merlin Security Update: Fixing High-Severity Vulnerabilities Vulnerability

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...
Agostino Pellegrino - December 15, 2025
How Profanity Varies Across Social Media and Cultures Cyber News

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 - December 15, 2025
GhostFrame Phishing Kit: New Stealthy PhaaS Threat Emerges Cyber News

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...
Silvia Felici - December 14, 2025

Are Black Hackers Demanding Ransom? Checkout.com Responds: We Fund Those Hunting You

Payment service Checkout.com was the victim of an extortion attempt: the ShinyHunters group claimed to have accessed company data and demanded a ransom. An investigation revealed that the attackers had...

Trump, Hong Kong, and the Global Rush to Regulate Cryptocurrencies

Throughout 2024, there were several signs of a shift in the relationship between institutions and cryptocurrencies. On March 6, President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a "Bitcoin Strategic...

Sam Altman and her husband Oliver and the dream of genetically modified children

The pursuit of immortality is a pervasive obsession in Silicon Valley. Likewise, the idea of perfecting children through genetic modification is another. Sam Altman, the man who brought artificial intelligence...

The stress of social network algorithms causes burnout in creators

A new research project has shown that the online content industry, which has offered people thousands of new ways to earn money, is also placing significant mental stress on its...

Discovering Tor Browser: The Digital Fortress for Online Privacy

Tor Browser (short for The Onion Router) is a free, open-source web browser designed specifically to protect users' online privacy. Using a network of servers distributed around the world, Tor...

Virtual Private Network (VPN): What It Is, How It Works, and Why

A VPN , short for Virtual Private Network, is a system that allows you to establish a secure and private connection over a public network, such as the Internet ....

Rare Earths: What They Are and Why They Matter More Than Oil in Today’s World

We often hear about the so-called "Rare Earths". This is a set of seventeen metallic elements. These include the fifteen lanthanides on the periodic table , plus scandium and yttrium...

Let’s discover injections explained in a simple way

Good morning everyone. I'm Davide Cavallini, a web developer and penetration tester. Today I'm going to talk about injections. There are various types, but what does it conceptually mean to...

A journey into the world of OT/ICS: What are SCADA servers?

The world of OT (Operational Technology) and ICS (Industrial Control Systems) is closely related to SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems. In industrial automation, SCADA systems play a fundamental...

Quishing: What it is, how it works, and how to protect yourself

Quishing is an emerging form of cyberattack that combines traditional phishing with the use of QR codes , tools now familiar to many. The term " quishing " is a...

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