Sly Uduosa

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

3,500 Arrested in Global Operation HAECHI-IV Targeting Financial Criminals

Over the course of a six-month worldwide police investigation known as HAECHI-IV, approximately 3,500 people have been arrested and $300 million worth of assets have been seized from 34 different nations. Targeting a variety of financial crimes, including voice phishing, romance scams, online extortion, investment fraud, money laundering connected to illicit online gambling, business email […]

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Kali Linux 2023.4 Released With New Hacking Tools

As 2023 comes to an end and the holidays approach, Offensive Security publishes Kali Linux 2023.4, the most recent version of the well-liked operating system. Offensive Security’s Kali Linux, an operating system based on Debian, is devoted to penetration testing and ethical hacking. In this field, it’s a cutting-edge, open-source, free operating system. Every year,

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Hackers Can Create A C2 Channel Using Google Calendar

Google is alerting users to the existence of several threat actors that are disseminating a proof-of-concept (PoC) attack that uses its Calendar service to host command-and-control devices. Using a Gmail account, the application, known as Google Calendar RAT (GCR), uses Google Calendar Events for C2. It was initially released in June 2023 on GitHub. Developer

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SideCopy Exploiting WinRAR Flaw in Attacks Targeting Indian Government Entities

The threat actor with ties to Pakistan, SideCopy, has been seen using the WinRAR security flaw in its assaults against Indian government institutions to spread trojans that provide remote access, including DRat, Ares RAT, and AllaKore RAT. According to enterprise security firm SEQRITE, the campaign is multi-platform and includes attacks aimed at infiltrating Linux computers

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Lazarus Group Targeting Defense Experts with Fake Interviews via Trojanized VNC Apps

As part of its ongoing Operation Dream Job effort, the North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group (also known as Hidden Cobra or TEMP.Hermit) has been seen employing trojanized Virtual Network Computing (VNC) programmes as enticements to target nuclear engineers and the defence sector. In its APT trends report for Q3 2023, Kaspersky stated that “the threat actor

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Iran-Linked OilRig Targets Middle East Governments in 8-Month Cyber Campaign

Between February and September 2023, an undisclosed Middle Eastern country was the focus of an eight-month campaign by the Iran-linked threat actor OilRig. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, a division of Broadcom, claimed in a report published with The Hacker News that the attack resulted in the loss of information and passwords and, in one

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Tornado Cash Founders Charged in Billion-Dollar Crypto Laundering Scandal

The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) charged two founders of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer business with laundering more than $1 billion in illegal proceeds in an indictment that was unsealed on Wednesday. Roman Storm and Roman Semenov have both been accused of conspiring to commit money laundering, to violate sanctions, and to run an unregistered

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FBI Alert: Crypto Scammers are Masquerading as NFT Developers

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning about online thieves who pose as non-fungible token (NFT) creators in order to steal cryptocurrencies and other digital assets from unwary consumers. In these fraudulent schemes, fraudsters frequently use deceptive advertising strategies to generate a sense of urgency to pull them off, either by

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Couple Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering in $3.6 Billion Bitfinex Hack

In connection with the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex, which resulted in the theft of around 120,000 bitcoin, a married couple from New York City has admitted guilt on counts of money laundering. The news comes more than a year after Ilya Lichtenstein, 35, and his wife Heather Morgan, 33, were taken into

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HotRat: New AsyncRAT Malware Variant Spreading Via Pirated Software

A new variant of AsyncRAT malware dubbed HotRat is being distributed via free, pirated versions of popular software and utilities such as video games, image and sound editing software, and Microsoft Office. According to Martin a Milánek, security researcher at Avast, “HotRat malware gives attackers a wide range of capabilities, including stealing login credentials, cryptocurrency

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