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    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...

    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...

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    SonicWall SMA1000 Vulnerability: Critical Security Patch Released Vulnerability

    SonicWall SMA1000 Vulnerability: Critical Security Patch Released

    Researchers have discovered a vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-40602, affecting SonicWall's SMA1000 series of secure access gateways. This flaw is particularly...
    Agostino Pellegrino - 18 December 2025
    HPE OneView Vulnerability CVE-2025-37164: Critical Security Update Required Vulnerability

    HPE OneView Vulnerability CVE-2025-37164: Critical Security Update Required

    Cybersecurity is a serious issue, especially when it comes to vulnerabilities that can compromise an entire system. Well, Hewlett Packard...
    Agostino Pellegrino - 18 December 2025
    CISA Warns of Critical Vulnerabilities in Cisco, SonicWall, and ASUS Devices Vulnerability

    CISA Warns of Critical Vulnerabilities in Cisco, SonicWall, and ASUS Devices

    The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a critical alert including three new vulnerabilities in its catalog of...
    Agostino Pellegrino - 18 December 2025
    Critical Windows Admin Center Flaw CVE-2025-64669 Exposes Servers to Attack Cyber News

    Critical Windows Admin Center Flaw CVE-2025-64669 Exposes Servers to Attack

    A security flaw has been discovered in Microsoft's Windows Admin Center (WAC) . Essentially, a permissions error could allow any...
    Massimiliano Brolli - 18 December 2025
    Ink Dragon Hackers Uncovered: Sophisticated Cyber Espionage Operation Vulnerability

    Ink Dragon Hackers Uncovered: Sophisticated Cyber Espionage Operation

    It was only a matter of time. Governments around the world have now put their security systems on high alert....
    Agostino Pellegrino - 18 December 2025
    Google Discontinues Dark Web Report, Shifts to Active Protection Cybercrime

    Google Discontinues Dark Web Report, Shifts to Active Protection

    No more useless alerts. No more passive monitoring. Less than two years after its launch, Google has decided to shut...
    Luca Galuppi - 17 December 2025
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    Does Windows Suck? A Video by Dave Plummer, the Microsoft Engineer Who Created Task Manager

    Dave Plummer, a highly regarded former senior engineer at Microsoft who led the development of several key Windows components, including Task Manager, the Windows NT port of Space Cadet Pinball...

    - November 28th, 2025

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    China surpasses US in open-source AI models

    China surpasses the United States in the global market for open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models. According to a November 26 Financial Times report, a study by MIT and open-source AI...

    - November 28th, 2025

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    ENISA takes on the role of Root in the European Cybersecurity Initiative (CVE).

    The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has taken on the role of Root within the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) programme, becoming the main point of reference for national...

    - November 27th, 2025

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    Supply Chain Attack on OpenAI: Analytics Provider Mixpanel Compromised

    OpenAI has confirmed a security incident at Mixpanel, a third-party analytics provider used for its APIs. According to the investigation, the cause of the security incident involving OpenAI and Mixpanel...

    - November 27th, 2025

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    Be careful when using SSDs! Without power, you risk data loss

    XDA Developers reminds us that using solid-state drives for long-term storage is risky. If SSDs are left without power for years, data can become corrupted or even disappear entirely. Unlike...

    - November 27th, 2025

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    Quantum Computing vs. Artificial Intelligence: Which Will Really Change the Future?

    Quantum mechanics remains a complex and mysterious field, both difficult to explain and difficult to understand. This branch of physics studies the unusual behavior of tiny particles, phenomena that are...

    - November 27th, 2025

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    ToddyCat APT Group Targets Microsoft 365 Email Security

    Email security continues to be one of the most critical points in modern cyber attacks. While compromising a Windows domain is already a success for a malicious actor, gaining access...

    - November 27th, 2025

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    Tor Boosts Security with Counter Galois Onion CGO Encryption

    The Tor project has announced the introduction of a new encryption scheme, called Counter Galois Onion (CGO) , intended to replace the previous Tor1 Relay method. The update aims to...

    - November 27th, 2025

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    WormGPT 4: AI-Powered Cybercrime Tools on the Rise

    Cybercriminals no longer need to convince ChatGPT or Claude Code to write malware or data-stealing scripts. A whole class of specialized language models, specifically designed for attacks, already exists. One...

    - November 26th, 2025

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    EU lawmakers push for Microsoft alternative to boost tech sovereignty

    A group of members of the European Parliament have called for Microsoft to abandon its internal use of products and switch to European solutions. Their initiative stems from growing concerns...

    - November 26th, 2025

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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…

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    And let the phishing begin! Microsoft is taking action against a zero-day exploit already exploited in Office
    Pietro Melillo - 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 exploited in cyberattacks. The issue, identified as…