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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...

Nearly 2,000 bugs in 100 dating apps: How your data can be stolen

Agostino Pellegrino | Cyber News | 23/01/2026

A study of 100 dating apps revealed a disturbing picture: nearly 2,000 vulnerabilities were detected, 17% of which were classified as critical. The analysis was conducted by AppSec Solutions. The stud...

MacSync: The macOS malware that empties your wallet… after weeks

Massimiliano Brolli | Cyber News | 23/01/2026

A new malware campaign has emerged in the macOS world, one that relies not on sophisticated exploits, but on good old-fashioned social engineering. It’s powered by the MacSync malware, distributed usi...

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NANOREMOTE Trojan Uses Google Drive for Command and Control

A new multifunctional Windows Trojan called NANOREMOTE uses a cloud file storage service as its command center , making the...

Massimiliano Brolli - 12 December 2025

Cyber News

Microsoft Azure OAuth Attack: ConsentFix Malware Steals Accounts

A new scheme called " ConsentFix " expands the capabilities of the already known ClickFix social media attack and allows...

Redazione RHC - 12 December 2025

Cyber News

Linux Foundation Launches Agentic AI Foundation with Key Tech Players

The establishment of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a dedicated fund under the auspices of the Linux Foundation , was...

Silvia Felici - 12 December 2025

Cyber News

Disney Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI for Sora Video Deal

Disney will invest $1 billion in OpenAI and officially license its characters for use in its Sora video generator. The...

Silvia Felici - 12 December 2025

Cyber News

Microsoft 365 Okta Phishing Attack: Experts Warn of New Threat

A recent study by Datadog Security Labs reveals an ongoing operation targeting organizations using Microsoft 365 and Okta for single...

Redazione RHC - 12 December 2025

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React Server Components Vulnerability: Update to Prevent DoS Attacks

The React Server component security saga continues this week. Following the patching of a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability...

Agostino Pellegrino - 12 December 2025

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Python to Rust: A More Secure Future for the Programming Language

Two CPython developers have proposed adding the Rust programming language to the Python codebase . Emma Smith and a colleague have published a Preliminary Python Enhancement Proposal (Pre-PEP) justifying this...

Multi-threaded Hacking: US Pioneers Automated Operations with AI Agents

In recent months, a new cyber operations infrastructure has been developing in the United States, in which automated agents are becoming not just a support tool, but a full-fledged participant...

WhatsApp data leak: 3.5 billion numbers “stolen” by researchers at the University of Vienna

The scale of the leak, described by a team from the University of Vienna , demonstrates how dangerous the familiar contact search function of popular messaging apps can be. WhatsApp...

Google launches Gemini 3, its most advanced artificial intelligence model

Google has announced the launch of Gemini 3, the next generation of its flagship artificial intelligence model, which the company is integrating into search, the Gemini app, cloud services, and...

CISA’s ‘Secure by Design’ Pledge: A Year of Progress in Cybersecurity

By Carl Windsor, Chief Information Security Officer at Fortinet Secure-by-design practices represent a fundamental shift in software development: security is no longer considered an afterthought, but is integrated from the...

Cloudflare global outage: It was an internal technical error. Let’s find out the cause.

On November 18, 2025, at 11:20 UTC , a significant portion of Cloudflare's global infrastructure suddenly ceased to properly route Internet traffic, displaying an HTTP error page to millions of...

Cloudflare goes down in the magnificent cloud! Global incident is being resolved.

November 18, 2025 - After hours of widespread disruptions , the incident affecting Cloudflare's global network finally appears to be nearing resolution. The company announced it has implemented a fix...

Cloudflare Down: Websites and Services to Go Down on November 18, 2025

The morning of November 18, 2025, will be remembered as one of the most anomalous and widespread outages on the Cloudflare network in recent months. The CDN—the beating heart of...

IBM AIX: Two critical bugs allow execution of arbitrary commands (Score 10 and 9.6)

Two serious vulnerabilities in IBM's AIX operating system could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on affected systems, prompting the company to issue important security updates. Both vulnerabilities represent...

Twitter Hack: $4.1 Million Seized from 26-Year-Old Joseph James O’Connor

The story of the global Twitter hack in the summer of 2020 has had a sequel: British prosecutors have obtained the seizure of cryptocurrency mined by a key participant in...

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Cybercrime

A blow to the heart of cybercrime: RAMP taken offline. The “temple” of ransomware falls!

Bajram Zeqiri - 28/01/2026

Cyberpolitics

Digital Autonomy: France Says Goodbye to Teams and Zoom by 2027

Silvia Felici - 28/01/2026

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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

Cyber News

ServiceNow Under Attack: How an Email Can Open the Doors to Your Business

Redazione RHC - 27/01/2026

The recent discovery of a vulnerability in ServiceNow’s AI platform has shaken the cybersecurity industry. This flaw, characterized by an extremely high severity score, allowed unauthenticated attackers to impersonate any corporate user. To launch the…

Cybercrime

149 Million Accounts Exposed: The Database No One Should Have Seen

Redazione RHC - 26/01/2026

A recent leak revealed 149 million logins and passwords exposed online , including accounts for financial services, social media, gaming, and dating sites. The discovery was made by researcher Jeremiah Fowler and shared with ExpressVPN.…