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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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    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 - 15 December 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 - 14 December 2025
    WhatsApp: all it takes is a phone number to know when you sleep, go out, or come home Cyber News

    WhatsApp: all it takes is a phone number to know when you sleep, go out, or come home

    A tool has been released that allows for the discreet monitoring of WhatsApp and Signal user activity using just a...
    Redazione RHC - 14 December 2025
    Cyber Geopolitics: How Tech Becomes a Global Battleground Cybercrime

    Cyber Geopolitics: How Tech Becomes a Global Battleground

    Over the past two years, cyber has ceased to be a " technical " dimension of the conflict and has...
    Roberto Villani - 14 December 2025
    SOAP Vulnerability in .NET Framework Allows Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    SOAP Vulnerability in .NET Framework Allows Remote Code Execution

    Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in .NET that could affect several enterprise products and lead to remote code execution....
    Agostino Pellegrino - 14 December 2025
    CVE-2025-55182 React Server Components Vulnerability Exploited Cyber News

    CVE-2025-55182 React Server Components Vulnerability Exploited

    A recent report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) illustrates the chaotic results of this information dissemination, highlighting how...
    Marcello Filacchioni - 13 December 2025
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    Whoever took down Cloudflare during the outage put their infrastructure at risk

    A major outage in Cloudflare's infrastructure has unexpectedly tested the robustness of the cloud and its security systems for many businesses. On November 18, service outages caused websites around the...

    - November 21st, 2025

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    Critical Vulnerability in Azure Bastion Scores 10! When RDP and SSH in the Cloud Are Checkmated

    An authentication bypass vulnerability has been discovered in Azure Bastion , Microsoft's managed service that enables secure RDP and SSH connections to virtual machines in Azure without directly exposing them...

    - November 21st, 2025

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    Risk averted for millions of Microsoft users! The critical vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint 9.8

    Microsoft has disclosed a critical vulnerability in SharePoint Online (discovered by RHC through our ongoing monitoring of critical CVEs on our portal), identified as CVE‑2025‑59245 , with a CVSS v3.1...

    - November 21st, 2025

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    Sturnus, the banking Trojan that intercepts WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal messages

    ThreatFabric specialists have discovered a new banking Trojan, Sturnus . The malware is capable of intercepting messages from end-to-end encrypted messaging apps (Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram) and gaining full control over...

    - November 21st, 2025

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    Disloyal Employees: Fired, Returns to Work, and Resets 2,500 Passwords Without the Company’s Knowledge

    An employee has pleaded guilty to hacking into his former employer's network and causing nearly $1 million in damages after being fired. According to the indictment, 35-year-old Maxwell Schultz, who...

    - November 21st, 2025

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    MONOLOCK: The new “silent” ransomware group that rejects leak sites and affiliate panels.

    The ransomware landscape is changing. The most exposed actors—LockBit, Hunters International, and Trigona—have paid the price for overexposure, including international operations, infiltrations, deliberate leaks, and operational collapses. After years dominated...

    - November 21st, 2025

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    Critical vulnerability in the WordPress plugin W3 Total Cache. 430,000 sites at risk!

    A critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-9501, has been discovered in the popular WordPress plugin W3 Total Cache . This vulnerability allows the execution of arbitrary PHP commands on the server without authentication....

    - November 21st, 2025

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    Hundreds of robots on the march: China presents the new generation of humanoids

    Shenzhen -based UBTECH Robotics has publicly demonstrated its new wave of humanoid robots, delivering several hundred of them in a single shipment. The announcement was accompanied by a video that...

    - November 21st, 2025

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    Veeam launches Data Platform v13, redefining the standard for cyber resilience and advanced data protection.

    With new capabilities to stay ahead of threats and accelerate recovery with next-generation security, forensic insights and intelligent automation, Veeam also launches the Universal Hypervisor Integration API, a flexible integration...

    - November 20th, 2025

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    Happy birthday, Windows! 40 years of operating system history and still going strong.

    Exactly 40 years ago, on November 20, 1985, Microsoft released Windows 1.0 , the first version of Windows, which attempted to transform the then-personal computer from a machine with a...

    - November 20th, 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…