Winning is exhausting but I don't plan on stopping

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Hello everyone,

Today is August 16th 2025, I have turned 26 and wanted to share some of my life's biggest wins. These achievements have been completed between January 1st 2025 and August 16th 2025:

  1. Jan 1st: Created hkohi.ca website to actively contribute to infosec community in Canada and beyond
  2. Jan 11th: Began Mission Cyber Sentinel with the aim of securing a combination of open-source projects that impact over 250,000+ digital assets through collaboration with ethical hackers from the UK & Romania
  3. Jan 12th: Published 10 behavior-analysis malware TTPs used by a pro-Taliban hacking group for evasion & cyber espionage
  4. Feb 6th: Released Zeroday Factory, an AI & SAST Assisted vulnerability analysis scanner that works with every modern web development framework such as Flask, Laravel, Rails and others
  5. March 16th: Started a cybersecurity mentorship program where clients pay by making a donation to a Canadian food-bank or homeless shelter
  6. March 19th: Began volunteer work with Hackfest Canada for creating CTF challenges 
  7. March 22nd: Got invited to SchlopShow podcast to talk about my hacking methodology and demonstrate bug hunting on open-source software
  8. May 5th: Enrolled into Fanshawe college and began accounting program
  9. May 19th: Created Cyber Mounties website (cyberm.ca), a peer reviewed cybersecurity training platform available in French & English & also registered it with Ontario Government under "CYBER MOUNTIES CANADA INC."
  10. June 18th: Identified and reported a vulnerability in Royal Bank Canada (RBC) that allowed users to steal money with cheques
  11. June 19th: Created Delta Obscura, the international vulnerability research arm of Cyber Mounties
  12. July 17th: Delta Obscura secured up to 446,000+ digital assets - safeguarding information of an estimated number of 44.1 million users from cyber-attacks
  13. July 29th: Achieved the rank of "Ninja" on HackFest; Canada’s largest cybersecurity event; this rank is given to trusted CTF designers 
  14. August 6th: Published a free course on Cyber Threat Intelligence with AI & data scraping; this course is available in English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese
  15. August 13th: Achieved the rank of "Competent" on VulDB, a community where security researchers submit vulnerabilities and get awarded CVEs and points that elevate their ranking among hackers
  16. Got credited for a total of 18+ CVEs by a combination of MITRE, VulDB, GitHub & Apache Software Foundation between Jan 1st to Aug 16th 

Here are the things I plan to achieve in the remaining months of 2025 or perhaps next year:

  1. Pass CPTS, Sec+ and CRTO exams
  2. Contribute to the Metasploit project by contributing exploits
  3. Get credited with at least 100 CVEs with medium to critical severities affecting web apps, binaries, operating systems, etc
  4. Participate in more cyber security missions to make the cyberspace safer
  5. Participate in conferences to network with the community in Canada and abroad
  6. Mentor more people to become security researchers 

I am grateful to My Lord, to My Family and My Friends for supporting me. 

Thank you all. 

Posted on: August 16, 2025 12:25 AM