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    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...

    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...

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    Kimwolf: The IoT botnet that moves silently across corporate and government networks Cyber News

    Kimwolf: The IoT botnet that moves silently across corporate and government networks

    The Kimwolf botnet represents one of the most insidious IoT threats to emerge recently. According to the latest analyses, this...
    Sandro Sana - 24 January 2026
    NoName057(16) hits Italy 487 times in the last 3 months: the DDoS wave does not stop Cyber News

    NoName057(16) hits Italy 487 times in the last 3 months: the DDoS wave does not stop

    Italy has confirmed itself as one of the main targets of the DDoS attack campaign carried out by the hacktivist...
    Marcello Filacchioni - 24 January 2026
    Undersea Cables: Ignored Warnings and Uncertain Trials. The Truth About Underwater Accidents Cyber News

    Undersea Cables: Ignored Warnings and Uncertain Trials. The Truth About Underwater Accidents

    In recent years, Taiwan has seen a series of incidents in which its undersea cables have been damaged or destroyed,...
    Sandro Sana - 24 January 2026
    CISA Updates Vulnerability Catalog: New Cybersecurity Threats Cyber News

    CISA Updates Vulnerability Catalog: New Cybersecurity Threats

    The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has updated its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities (KEVs) with four new entries...
    Agostino Pellegrino - 24 January 2026
    NexPhone: Three operating systems in your pocket! The phone that challenges the very concept of a PC. Cyber News

    NexPhone: Three operating systems in your pocket! The phone that challenges the very concept of a PC.

    The question has been circulating for over ten years: can a smartphone really replace a computer? Over time, the industry...
    Redazione RHC - 23 January 2026
    BlueNoroff: The Hacker Group Revolutionizing Cybercrime Cyber News

    BlueNoroff: The Hacker Group Revolutionizing Cybercrime

    The BlueNoroff hacker group has long since transformed cybercrime into a high-tech business, with tens of millions of dollars, cryptocurrency...
    Marcello Filacchioni - 23 January 2026
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    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...

    - January 21st, 2026

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    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...

    - January 20th, 2026

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    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...

    - January 20th, 2026

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    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...

    - January 19th, 2026

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    Elon Musk Sues OpenAI for $134 Billion Over AI Betrayal

    Elon Musk has filed a staggering $134 billion in damages in a malicious lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. According to Bloomberg , the latest lawsuit accuses OpenAI of betraying its...

    - January 19th, 2026

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    Net-NTLMv1 Exploitation: Rainbow Tables for Modern Attacks

    Mandiant has released a large set of rainbow tables dedicated to Net-NTLMv1 with the aim of concretely demonstrating how insecure this authentication protocol has become. Although Net-NTLMv1 has been deprecated...

    - January 18th, 2026

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    Critical Vulnerability in Modular DS WordPress Plugin – Update Now

    A high-severity security vulnerability has been identified in the WordPress plugin "Modular DS (Modular Connector)," and numerous security reports suggest that this vulnerability is being exploited in real-world attacks. The...

    - January 18th, 2026

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    Your paycheck is zero! Congratulations, someone answered the phone wrong

    No worker would accept their paycheck disappearing without explanation. It was precisely from a series of internal reports of this nature that an organization began investigating an apparently administrative anomaly,...

    - January 18th, 2026

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    Two Ukrainians Suspected in Black Basta Ransomware Attacks

    When it comes to cybersecurity, it's not uncommon to come across news stories that seem straight out of a science fiction movie. Yet, the reality is even more surprising and...

    - January 17th, 2026

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    From Zero-Day Exploits to Hidden Tunnels: How UAT-8837 Operates

    Since early 2025, Cisco Talos specialists have detected the activity of the UAT-8837 group, which they attribute to China based on techniques and infrastructure similar to other well-known operators in...

    - January 17th, 2026

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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
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    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…