Why people choose to be Black Hat Hacker?

What does a black hat hacker look like? The word might conjure up the image of a hoodie-wearing computer genius sneaking around in a dark room. While the image is compelling, it doesn’t illustrate the hacker’s methods and motives. To change that and help you improve our security, I explain what black hat hackers think, and why choose people to be black hat hacker,

1. Money

The most obvious and most common motivation for hacking is filthy lucre, financial reward, or, putting it plainly, money. Money is the motivation behind most criminal enterprises. Hacking is no exception. Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report showed that 86% of all breaches were financially motivated.

This is what everyone usually fears about. We’ve seen many businesses reach out to us at the stage when they have already been hacked and a hacker is demanding money. Hackers not only hack businesses and ask for ransom but they also try hacking into regular user accounts and try to take advantage of things like online banking, online retail, etc. where financial transactions are involved.

2. Steal Information

One of the most common reasons for to be black hat hackers to hack is to steal information. This could be data and information about your customers, your internal employees or even private data specific to your business. These are cases where hackers typically go after big targets in order to get the most attention.

A lot of times, black hat hackers hack information in order to assume your personal identity and then use it for something else like transferring money, taking a loan, etc. Such incidents have increased after Internet banking and mobile banking have started to become more popular. With the growth of smartphones and mobile devices, the potential for monetary gain through hacking has also increased.

3. To Gain Fame

Some black hat hackers just like the feeling of power and accomplishment they get from defacing 100s or 1000s of websites. They want to gain popularity and build an aura of fear around their names so that people take them seriously. For example, most of the people in the cybersecurity industry are familiar with names like Shiny Hunters, Chaos Computer Club (CCC), Lizard Squad, Lazarus Group, Anonymous, and Tarh Andishan. Below is an example of how hackers insert their names on a hacked website to gain popularity.

4. To Take Revenge

Some black hat hackers don’t care about money or fame. They are just vengeful and want to take revenge on a person, company, group, community, or even government. They hack their nemesis’ device, website, or online account and publish confidential data, leak sensitive personal media files, send phishing emails from their ID, post inappropriate stuff from enemies’ social media profiles, make fake purchases, etc. A hackers’ goal here is to make their nemesis suffer financial or reputational loss by defaming them.

5. Disrupt Services

Black hat Hackers just love to take something down. And then also leave a statement on the website — more on that later. But black hat hackers have successfully taken down many services by creating bots that overwhelm a server with traffic, thus, leading to a crash. It is known as a DoS (Denial of Service) attack and can put a company’s website out of service for a while. These days, there’s also DDoS or Distributed Denial of Service attacks which use multiple infected systems to take down a single major system leading to a denial of service. There are other ways also, like infecting a large network with malicious software inserted onto one computer either through email or otherwise which leads to a chain reaction affecting the whole network. Server disruption attacks usually have their own personal motive. Mainly, it is to render a service or website useless. Sometimes it can also be to make a point.

6. To Sell Data on Darknet

Some hackers don’t use stolen data for themselves, but they sell it to other hackers. There are special online marketplaces, known as darknet or dark market, for such data trading. Some of the infamous dark markets are Torrez, Tor2Door, Hydra, and White House Market. These platforms use cryptocurrency for transactions to prevent fund tracking, providing a factor of anonymity to buyers and sellers.

7. Selling Malware

Some hackers are programmers who write the code for various types of malware, including worms, trojans, viruses, scareware, and rootkits, etc. They can either use these malware programs or sell them to other cybercriminals.

8. For the challenge

Some hackers just hack for the fun of it. Really! For many younger IT-savvy techies, the technical challenge of finding backdoors into networks or hidden vulnerabilities is all the motivation they need. Breaking a secure system and defeating the best that cybersecurity companies have to offer is a test of skill, wit, and cunning, and there are plenty of hackers out there who hack for the sake of it.

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