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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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    Ink Dragon Targets Europe: Exploiting SharePoint and IIS Vulnerabilities Cybercrime

    Ink Dragon Targets Europe: Exploiting SharePoint and IIS Vulnerabilities

    This news comes to us from Recorded Future (Insikt Group) News & Research feed: Check Point Research has documented a...
    Sandro Sana - 19 December 2025
    Bypassing AI Safety: EchoGram Exposes Vulnerabilities in LLM Defenses Cyber News

    Bypassing AI Safety: EchoGram Exposes Vulnerabilities in LLM Defenses

    Large language models are typically released with security constraints : separate AIs from the main LLM ensure that malicious suggestions...
    Redazione RHC - 19 December 2025
    E-Note Shutdown: Major Blow to Cybercrime and Ransomware Cybercrime

    E-Note Shutdown: Major Blow to Cybercrime and Ransomware

    When we talk about cybercrime, we often think of something far away, something that doesn't concern us. But the truth...
    Marcello Filacchioni - 19 December 2025
    French Police Arrest Suspect in Cyberattack on Interior Ministry Cyber News

    French Police Arrest Suspect in Cyberattack on Interior Ministry

    French law enforcement has arrested a 22-year-old man suspected of carrying out a recent cyberattack on the Ministry of the...
    Agostino Pellegrino - 18 December 2025
    Google Unveils Gemini 3 Flash AI Model, Rivals OpenAI GPT-5.2 Cyber News

    Google Unveils Gemini 3 Flash AI Model, Rivals OpenAI GPT-5.2

    The battle for AI leadership is increasingly moving from the lab to mass production. The day after the release of...
    Redazione RHC - 18 December 2025
    Rise of AI Degrees: Students Shift from Computer Science to AI Cyber News

    Rise of AI Degrees: Students Shift from Computer Science to AI

    A marked shift in college student preferences is taking place in the United States. More and more young people are...
    Redazione RHC - 18 December 2025
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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...

    - November 28th, 2025

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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...

    - November 28th, 2025

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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...

    - November 28th, 2025

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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...

    - November 28th, 2025

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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....

    - November 28th, 2025

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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,...

    - November 28th, 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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    The world’s first humanoid robot store has opened in China. Will we be ready?
    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…