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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...

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...

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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

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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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IRS.GOV: alleged data breach affects the accounts of 18 million citizens

An alleged database containing sensitive information on 18 million U.S. citizens over 65 has appeared for sale on a popular...

Redazione RHC - 12 December 2025

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Amnesty International Launches .onion Site for Secure Access to Human Rights Info

Amnesty International has launched its own website, accessible via the .onion domain on the Tor network, offering a new secure...

Stefano Gazzella - 12 December 2025

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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

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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

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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Beware of “I am not a robot”: the malware trap that uses Google Calendar.

Bajram Zeqiri - 29/01/2026

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

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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…