Black hat hackers have become the popular of all kinds of hackers in the world. The hacker majority has become a similar for social criminals. Of course, that is an injustice created by our interpretation of the Cybercrime laws (United States: The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), 18 U.S.C. 1030 and Philippines: Republic Act No. 10175 or “Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012”), so it is important for us to learn what a hacker is, and who are they? How they attack us?
So, let's learn about ethical hacking and point out this. Black hat is used to describe a hacker or cracker who breaks into a computer system or network with a malicious file. It's the opposite of a white hat hacker.
A black hat hacker takes advantage of the breaking the system, perhaps destroying a database or stealing information for no purpose. The black hat hacker may also create the exploit to other hackers without notifying them. This gives chance to other to exploit the vulnerability before the organization is able to install anti-malware or firewall protection.
6 Most Notorious Hacker Attacks
What is Black hat hacking?
A black hats are living in the dark web, it is also commonly known as cracker. They're referring to some movies like Blackhat 2015, Who Am I, Hacker 2016, especially direct reference to the sci-fi movie "Starwars". This is someone who uses his deep knowledge, experience, and vast technical skills with cyber criminal.
Correct example
Cracking or hijacking credit card accounts from the bank in order to create transference to their clone accounts to be sold in the black market or hijacking network of an organization for the money or paid service.
1. Scammers, Spammers, Adware Spreaders
Provider of ad spam make money by the way of an illegal content online advertising, either getting compensated by an authentic organization for pushing their business sideline or by selling their products or services. Members of this group believe they are just "aggressive marketers." it helps them sleep at night.
2. Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Intruders engaging in APT attacks represent well-organized, well-funded groups. Often located in a "safe harbor" country, and they're out to steal a company's accounting information. They aren't out for quick financial gain like cyber criminals; they're in it for the long haul. Their ambition is to basically copy their target's thoughts and information in their own location or to sell the data they've stolen to the most bidder.
3. Corporate IT Spies
Corporate spying is not a new; it's just significantly easier to do, thanks to today's pervasive Internet. Corporate IT spies are usually interested in a particular piece of company intellectual property or competitive information, some says are "Man-in-the-Middle" or "Eavesdropping". They vary from APT users in that case they don't need to be situated in a protected area.. Corporate spies team aren't usually as organized as APT users. They are more focused on a short-to-midterm financial gains or referral income.
4. Hacktivists
Lots of hackers are inspired, trained, and motivated by political, religious, and environmental or personal connections. They're usually content with defacing their website weaknesses, although they can slip into corporate espionage if it means they can weaken the opponent. Think about WikiLeaks!
5. Cyber State War
Cyber warfare is a war in the city against city exploitation with an endgame goal of disabling an opponent's capability. Participants may operate as APT or Corporate IT spy at times, but everything they learn is geared toward a specific objective. The malicious computer worm (Stuxnet) is a great example of these attacks.
6. Rogue Hackers
There are so many thousands of hackers who simply want to prove their knowledge of hacking skills. They may participate in other types of hacking or cybercrime, but it isn't their only objective and motivation. These are the traditional conventional figures popularized by the sci-fi movie WarGames on 1983, hacking late at night, while drinking Cola and Peperoni Pizza. These are the worst criminals of the cyber hacking. They're a nuisance, but then they aren't about to disrupt the internet and business as we know it. It's different from above-mentioned.
Know The Hacker Attitude
It's important to know the characteristics of a hacker in order to defend against them. If you think simply having an updated operating system and installed antivirus, you're wrong. It is still defending against all hackers, no matter what their targets.
Tips #1: APT Manager
APT users usually take over the company or organization:
They control hundreds of computers, keep every credential accounts, able to listen on every conversation, including recorded meeting discussion. APT is very hard to beat!
The advanced persistent threats (APT) doesn't refer to their strategies; it refers to a high level of position/organization. They are tactical experts like SWOT analysis and a strategic plan to prevent and reduce threats on SWOT. If you want to get rid of an APT, you have to plan it out, slow but sure, and analyze their weaknesses.
Battling with Cyberwar is not as difficult to defeat malicious worm like Stuxnet.
Tips #2: Single PC
- Basically, All you have to do is focus on an individual system boot and temporary files "tmp", flash it all!
- Upgrade your operating system.
- Third, disable remote desktop system, locations, and all USB ports
- In the first place, you're safe!
If a hacker's motivation is purely pushing malware or spams, no worries! No need to reformat your computer. However, the opposite is Crimeware program. When you find it, the only best defense is to flatten and reinstall the operating system. Using honeypot is a dependable way to gauge which sort of robbery you're dealing with.
The make a system notifications and alerts to the threats.
Tips #3
I'll set up a honeypot full of games, software, PDF or apps that appears to highly confidential information, military or company secrets. The stealer breaking into the source server has different targets than the perpetrator who concentrates on the other side. When you come across invaders, just make sure you know and understand the behavior of hacker and character (blackhat, whitehat, greyhat), or you're being prematurely reactive.