Types of Hackers and Examples – Introduction to CyberSecurity
Types of Hackers are defined based on how they perform operations and their intentions.
In the Early days, cybercriminals are enthusiasts, Who enjoying to testing complete functionality in different perceptions mostly like Kevin Mitnick Who is a famous hacker enjoying what he doing. but nowadays hackers become very dangerous. They mainly find vulnerabilities to gain personally or financially.
Nowadays attackers not only work individually and they formed as groups and focused on sensitive data like credit cards, personal information people, and many more.
Types of Hackers
Types of Hackers
Types of hackers are mainly defined into three categories:
- White hat hackers,
- Black hat hackers,
- Gray hat hackers.
White hat hackers:
White hat hackers are good guys who performed penetration testing to find vulnerabilities in networks or systems and informed those vulnerabilities to the development team to fix those vulnerabilities before exploiting them.
These types of hackers are also called ethical hackers.
Most companies and organizations provide a bounty to the hackers who find vulnerabilities and informed them.
Black hat hackers:
Black hat hackers are bad guys, These hackers are also called unethical hackers. Black hat hackers do attacks for personal gain.
Black hat hackers use their skills for malicious activities. They exploit vulnerabilities to compromise computer systems and networks.
Gray Hat hackers:
Grey hat hackers are people who are skills unethical way but not for personal use. They exploit vulnerabilities unethically (without proper permission) and publish publically about the vulnerability.
They may also inform the organizations after exploiting it. it helps organizations fix their vulnerability and secure that.
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