Sly Uduosa

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

New S1deload Malware Hijacking Users’ Social Media Accounts and Mining Cryptocurrency

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Users of Facebook and YouTube are the target of an aggressive virus operation that uses a new information stealer to take over their accounts and use the networks’ resources to mine cryptocurrency. Due to its use of DLL side-loading strategies to circumvent security measures and execute its malicious components, Bitdefender has dubbed the virus S1deload […]

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Hackers Are Using Google Ads to Spread FatalRAT Malware

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Those who speak Chinese in Southeast and East Asia are the focus of a recent fraudulent Google Adwords campaign that infects targeted computers with remote access trojans like FatalRAT. According to a research released today by ESET, the assaults involve paying for ad spots to show up in Google search results that point people looking

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New ESXiArgs Ransomware Variant Emerges After CISA Releases Decryptor Tool

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The threat actors have responded with an upgraded version of ESXiArgs ransomware that encrypts more data after the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a decryptor for affected victims to recover from ESXiArgs ransomware attacks. A system administrator posted information on the new variant on an online forum where another user said that

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Researchers Uncover Packer Used by Several Malware to Evade Detection for 6 Years

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Over the past six years, a shellcode-based packer known as TrickGate has been functioning successfully without drawing attention while enabling threat actors to spread a variety of malware, including TrickBot, Emotet, AZORult, Agent Tesla, FormBook, Cerber, Maze, and REvil. TrickGate is a “master of disguises,” according to Arie Olshtein of Check Point Research. This is

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A New Wave of Malware is Spreading via Cracked Softwares

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Since early 2020, information-stealing malware like Raccoon and Vidar has been disseminated using a “large and resilient infrastructure” made up of over 250 domains. Security company SEKOIA stated in a research released earlier this month that the infection chain “uses roughly a hundred of phoney cracked software catalogue websites that lead to multiple links before

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Malware Attack on CircleCI Engineer’s Laptop Leads to Recent Security Incident

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DevOps platform CircleCI revealed on Friday that unidentified threat actors hacked a worker’s laptop and used malware to obtain their two-factor authentication-backed credentials to access the company’s systems and data a month earlier. The “complex attack,” according to the CI/CD provider CircleCI, occurred on December 16, 2022, and the malware evaded detection by its anti malware.

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Rackspace Admits Play Ransomware Gang Was Behind Recent Breach

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On Thursday, cloud services provider Rackspace acknowledged that the intrusion from last month was caused by the Play ransomware group. A previously unidentified security exploit was used by the security event, which happened on December 2, 2022, to acquire initial access to the Rackspace Hosted Exchange email system. The Texas-based business stated that “CVE-2022-41080 is

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