Sly Uduosa

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

The Operators Of TrickBot Now Expanding Malware Distribution Channel

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The operators of the TrickBot Malware have resurfaced with new tricks seeking to increase its foothold by expanding its distribution channels, ultimately leading to the deployment of ransomware such as Conti. The threat actor, tracked as Wizard Spider has been discovered to be in partnership with other cybercrime gangs such as Hive0105, Hive0106 and Hive0107 […]

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Google Is Currently Tracking 270 State-Sponsored Hackers

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More than 270 government-backed threat actors from over 50 countries has been put on a watch list by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Approximately 50,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware attempts to customers since the start of 2021. This brings about a 33% rise from 2020 as the spike stems from “blocking an unusually

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Unmasking Of Domain Name Registrants Now Part Of EU Proposals

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The EU in its “NIS2” legislation making its way through the European Parliament has made provisions to ban anonymous registration of domain data in a bid to boost security and anti-piracy efforts. It seeks to ensure the availability of accurate, verified and complete domain name registration data by imposing it on TLD registries and entities

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University of Sunderland Is The Latest Victim Of A Suspected Cyber Attack

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University of Sunderland on the 12th day of October, 2021 suffered a series of downtime on its IT systems, telephone lines and websites. This was revealed on its twitter page and have stated that it “has all the hallmarks of a cyber-attack.” The Sunderland Echo a local newspaper, reported that staff members were encountering difficulties

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New 0-day Patches in Windows Now Available Update Your PCs

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Security patches to contain a total of 71 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and other software has been released. This patch would also fix an actively exploited privilege escalation vulnerability that could be exploited in conjunction with remote code execution bugs to take over vulnerable systems. The security flaws have been rated with two being Critical,

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OpenSea Patches A Vulnerability That Could Have Enabled Hackers Drain Wallets Of Cryptocurrency

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OpenSea has just patched a critical vulnerability that could have been abused by malicious actors to drain cryptocurrency funds from a victim by sending a specially-crafted token in the form of a malicious NFT. When this malicious NFT is clicked, it results in a scenario whereby rogue transactions can be facilitated through a third-party wallet

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Attempted 2.4 Tbps DDoS Attack on Microsoft Azure Fended Off

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Microsofts Azure cloud platform suffered a 2.4 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DD0S) attack in the last week of August however this was mitigated. The attack targeted an unnamed customer in Europe surpassing a 2.3 Tbps attack stopped by Amazon Web Services in February 2020. Amir Dahan, senior program manager of Azure Network has said in a

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Ukrainian Hacker With Over 100,000 Botnets Arrested

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Ukrainian law enforcement authorities have arrested a hacker who created and managed a “powerful botnet” consisting of nothing less than 100,000 enslaved devices that was used to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and spam attacks on behalf of paid customers. The suspect’s residence was raided and computer equipment as evidence of illegal activity was seized.

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Healthcare Fast Becoming The New Target Of Ransomware Group FIN12

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The RYUK ransomware which has been in prevalence since October 2018 has been linked to an aggressive and financially motivated threat actor who has been known to have a close partnership with TrickBot-affiliated threat actors and making use of publicly available arsenal of tools such as Cobalt Strike Beacon payloads to interact with victim networks.

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