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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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    Top 25 Software Vulnerabilities 2025: MITRE CWE Ranking and Security Tips Cyber News

    Top 25 Software Vulnerabilities 2025: MITRE CWE Ranking and Security Tips

    MITRE has released its ranking of the 25 most dangerous software vulnerabilities predicted for 2025, based on data collected through...
    Redazione RHC - 13 December 2025
    The Future of Work: 4-Day Week with AI and Tech Advances Cyber News

    The Future of Work: 4-Day Week with AI and Tech Advances

    The prospect of a four-day workweek, with a resulting three-day long weekend, may not be far off. This is according...
    Redazione RHC - 13 December 2025
    ARTEMIS Leads in AI-Powered Pentesting, Outperforming Human Experts Cyber News

    ARTEMIS Leads in AI-Powered Pentesting, Outperforming Human Experts

    Stanford researchers and their colleagues conducted an unusual experiment: they compared the performance of ten professional specialists and a set...
    Redazione RHC - 13 December 2025
    Apple Patches Critical WebKit Vulnerabilities in iOS Update Cyber News

    Apple Patches Critical WebKit Vulnerabilities in iOS Update

    Following the discovery of two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in the WebKit browser engine, Apple has urgently released security updates for...
    Agostino Pellegrino - 13 December 2025
    Kali Linux 2025.4: Discover the Power of Wayland and Enhanced Security Tools Cyber News

    Kali Linux 2025.4: Discover the Power of Wayland and Enhanced Security Tools

    The recent 2025.4 release of Kali Linux has been made available to the public, introducing significant improvements to the GNOME,...
    Redazione RHC - 12 December 2025
    French Interior Ministry Hit by Cyberattack, Data Security at Risk Cyber News

    French Interior Ministry Hit by Cyberattack, Data Security at Risk

    The French Ministry of the Interior's email servers were targeted by a cyberattack. The hacker managed to access "several files,"...
    Redazione RHC - 12 December 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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    World Children’s Day: Children live in digital, but digital wasn’t designed for them.

    Today is World Children's Day, established by the UN on November 20 to commemorate two fundamental acts: the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child and, thirty years later,...

    - November 20th, 2025

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    Huawei unveils HarmonyOS and the new HM740 laptop. Is Microsoft Office at risk?

    On November 19, Huawei presented the latest developments in its HarmonyOS line for the office sector during a technical meeting with institutional partners and enterprises. The company confirmed that HarmonyOS-based...

    - November 20th, 2025

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    Meta and Google suspend construction of two undersea cables due to instability in the Red Sea

    Meta and Google have been forced to postpone several major undersea internet cable projects, including 2Africa and Blue-Raman , in the Red Sea corridor through which 20 percent of global...

    - November 20th, 2025

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    Let the hunt begin! Critical 7-Zip bug puts millions of users at risk.

    Millions of users are exposed to the risk of malware infections and system compromise due to hackers' active exploitation of a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the popular...

    - November 20th, 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...

    - November 19th, 2025

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    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...

    - November 19th, 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…