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Email Security Under Pressure: Phishing Kits to Double in 2025 Cyber News

Email Security Under Pressure: Phishing Kits to Double in 2025

According to Barracuda’s Phishing Report 2025 , the number of phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) kits is expected to double by 2025, placing...
Redazione RHC - January 26, 2026
How a simple Visual Studio Code file can become a backdoor for state-run hackers Cyber News

How a simple Visual Studio Code file can become a backdoor for state-run hackers

Security researchers have recently observed a worrying evolution in the offensive tactics attributed to North Korean-linked actors as part of...
Redazione RHC - January 26, 2026
Khaby Lame is selling the rights to his digital identity for $900 million. But there’s reason to think. Cyber News

Khaby Lame is selling the rights to his digital identity for $900 million. But there’s reason to think.

Khaby Lame, the world's most followed Italian creator and now a global social media icon, has taken a step that...
Redazione RHC - January 26, 2026
Microsoft Teams will know where you are: your geographic location will be inferred from your Wi-Fi Cyber News

Microsoft Teams will know where you are: your geographic location will be inferred from your Wi-Fi

Microsoft is preparing to introduce an update that will transform a small manual habit into a system-wide automation. Soon, Microsoft...
Redazione RHC - January 26, 2026
Linux 7.0 says goodbye to the HIPPI relic: a piece of supercomputing history has been eliminated. Cyber News

Linux 7.0 says goodbye to the HIPPI relic: a piece of supercomputing history has been eliminated.

The Linux kernel has long been a well-established reality, and while it still contains code for technologies no longer in...
Silvia Felici - January 25, 2026
“I Stole 120,000 Bitcoins”: The Confession of the Bitfinex Hacker Who Now Wants to Defend Cyberspace Cyber News

“I Stole 120,000 Bitcoins”: The Confession of the Bitfinex Hacker Who Now Wants to Defend Cyberspace

The story ofIlya Lichtenstein, the hacker responsible for one of the largest cyber attacks ever carried out against cryptocurrencies, reads...
Agostino Pellegrino - January 25, 2026

LockBit 5.0 Ransomware: New Threats and Advanced Tactics

The LockBit group, which many had quickly dismissed after high-profile failures and leaks, unexpectedly returned to the scene. In the fall of 2025, it unveiled a new version of its...

Cisco Zero-Day Vulnerability CVE-2026-20045 Actively Exploited

A critical zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, identified as CVE-2026-20045, has been discovered by Cisco and is being actively exploited in active attacks. Cisco has urged immediate patching, and...

Cybersecurity in Local Administrations: The Hidden Risk

There's a convenient misconception in Italy: thinking that cybersecurity is a matter for ministries or large strategic players. It's reassuring. And it's wrong. In the real design of public connectivity,...

UK Organizations Hit by Russia-Backed DDoS Attacks

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre has issued a strong warning regarding a series of denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting British organizations. This phenomenon has not gone unnoticed by authorities, who...

GitLab Security Update Fixes Critical Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-0723

An urgent security update has been released by GitLab for the Community (CE) and Enterprise (EE) editions to address several high-severity vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities expose installations to potential denial-of-service (DoS)...

Critical Telnetd Vulnerability in GNU InetUtils Allows Root Access

A critical security flaw has been discovered in the telnetd server component of GNU InetUtils, involving remote authentication bypass . A security researcher reported the vulnerability on January 19, 2026....

Everest Ransomware Attacks McDonald’s, 861GB Data Stolen

Yesterday, the Everest cybercriminal gang claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on McDonald's on their Data Leak Site (DLS) . From the gang's post, the cybercriminals claim to have 861GB of...

ESXi Zero-Day Exploit: How to Protect Your VMware Environment

A group of attackers is using a zero-day exploit toolkit to compromise VMware ESXi instances in an uncontrolled manner, taking advantage of multiple vulnerabilities to bypass virtual machine restrictions. The...

VoidLink Malware: AI-Generated Threat for Linux Systems

We had already talked about VoidLink a few days ago , it is a framework composed of over 30 modules that can be combined to meet specific attacker objectives on...

Google Fast Pair Vulnerability: WhisperPair Exposes Millions of Devices

Researchers from the Cybersecurity and Industrial Cryptography team at KU Leuven have discovered a critical flaw in the Google Fast Pair protocol. The vulnerability allows attackers to hijack control of...

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