Sly Uduosa

Sylvester Uduosa who goes by the nickname 'Sly' is a Legal Practitioner, Certified Ethical Hacker and Python Programmer.

Researchers Discover Strategic Similarities b/w Notpeya and WhisperGate Attatcks

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The wiper malware which attacked dozens of Ukranian agencies earlier this month has been analysed thus revealing “strategic similarities” to NotPetya malware that was unleashed against the country’s infrastructure and elsewhere in 2017. WhisperGate as it is been called was discovered by Micrfosoft last week, which said it observed the destructive cyber campain targeting government, […]

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Interpol Arrests 11 Members of a Nigerian Cybercrime Gang

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11 members of a Nigerian cybercrime gang known for perpetrating business email compromise (BEC) have been apprehended by a coordinated law enforcement operation. This comes after a ten-day investigation dubbed Operation Falcon II undertaken by the Interpol along with participation from the Nigeria Police Force’s Cybercrime Police Unit in December 2021. Group-IB and Palo Alto

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Europol Shuts Down VPNLab Popularly Used By Cybercriminals

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The popular VPNLab.net used by malicious actors to deploy ransomware has been taken offline following a coordinated law enforcement operation. Europol stated that it took action against the misuse of the VPN service by grounding 15 of its servers on January 17 thus rendering it inoperable as part of a disruptive action that took place

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Researchers Discover 3 WordPress Plugins Leaving 84,000 Websites Vulnerable To Attack

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Three WordPress plugins have been discovered to be affected with a security shortcoming which gives a malicious actor the opportunity to take over vulnerable websites. An attacker could update arbitrary site options on a vulnerable site, provided they could trick a site administrator into clicking a link or doing a thing. Tracked as CVE-2022-0215, the

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Garrett Walk-Through Metal Detector Vulnerability Discovered

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Security flaws have been uncovered in a networking component in Garrett Metal Detectors which could allow remote attackers bypass authentication requirements, tamper with metal detector configurations and even execute arbitrary code on the devices. Cisco Talos noted in a disclosure publicized that “An attacker could manipulate this module to remotely monitor statistics on the metal

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Chinese Hackers Target Academic Institution Using Log4Shell Exploit

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Aquatic Panda a China-based targeted intrusion has been observed leveraging critical flaws in the Apache Log4j logging library as an access vector to perform various post-exploitation operations, including reconnaissance and credential harvesting on targeted systems. Crowdstrike a cybersecurity firm stated that the infiltration which was foiled was aimed at an unnamed “large academic institution”. The

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New PseudoManuscrypt Malware Currently Infecting Computers

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A new malware called PseudoManyscrypt has been observed attacking industrial and government organizations including enterprises in the military-industrial complex and research laboratories. The name is derived from its similarities to the Manuscrypt malware which is part of trhe Lazarus APT groups attack toolset and the series of intrusion was first detected in June 2021. It

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Facebook to Reward Hackers for Reporting Data Scraping Bugs and Scraped Datasets.

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Facebook now Meta has announced plans to expand its bug bounty program to start rewarding valid reports of scraping vulnerabilities across its platforms as well as include reports of scraping data sets that are available online. “We know that automated activity designed to scrape people’s public and private data targets every website or service,” said

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Microsoft Releases Windows Update to Patch Zero Day Used to Spread Emotet Malware

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Multiple security vulnerabilities have been addressed in the recent Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates. This updates deals with but not limited to actively exploited flaw that is being abused to deliver Emotet, TrickBot or Bazaloader malware payloads. This release fixes a total of 67 flaws bringing the total number of bugs patched by the company this

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Another Bitcoin Mining Malware Targets QNAP NAS Devices

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QNAP the Network-attached storage (NAS) appliance maker has released a new advisory warning of a cryptocurrency mining malware targeting devices. This is a bitcoin miner which target QNAP NAS. Once a NAS is infected, CPU usage becomes unusually high where a process named ‘[oom_reaper]’ could occupy around 50% of the total CPU usage,” the Taiwanese

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