How do hackers make income?

Hacking is an attractive subject which attracts lots of people, and they want to have detailed information about it, the most common question is about their income which we are going to discuss in the following, when you heard of the word "hacker" you may think of a person who is trying to infiltrate your system and steal your important information in order to make money, but it should be noted that there are different types of hackers and some of them even help the organizations find security holes and have income through this way so that in this article we are going to mention the most important points about this field.

Hacking definition:

The process of infiltrating or comprising different networks, simply put, it is considered as the attempt of hackers to gain access to computer systems without the owners' permission and use it in order to achieve their goals whether malicious or not.

Who is called a hacker?

As you can guess, hacker is considered as a person who tries to find different systems' security holes which can be done for many reasons including stealing information in order to abuse it, cause damage in system, and they may want to install malware which can cause considerable damages in the system, on the other hand there are some hackers who try to find the security holes of systems and make the owners of them aware of the weaknesses that should be fixed as soon as possible otherwise these vulnerabilities will give other hackers the opportunity of having access to their essential information and abuse it in a way that they want, as a result, all of them do not have malicious purpose.

Different types of hackers:

There are various types of hackers, but they are different from each other, the main difference between them is their goals because as we have mentioned above, there are some of them whose goal is helping organizations find their vulnerabilities instead of installing malware and stealing information, here we are going to mention some of them.

White hat hacker:

This category belongs to the hackers who try to find the security holes and make the owner of that organization aware of the possible threats, and they may also fix these weak points, they are also called ethical hacker.

Black hat hacker:

This category belongs to the ones who try to find the weak points of a system so that they try to exploit the security and infiltrate it in order to steal user's essential information and abuse it in a way that they want to achieve their malicious goals.

Gray hat hacker:

As the name implies, their activity is something between two above types due to the fact that they help organization find their weaknesses by making the owner of that aware of the problems, but the point is that they do not have the permission to do this process which is not legal.

Red hat hackers:

They use their abilities in order to attack black hat hackers in an illegal way, they usually use malware or DDoS attacks or other tools for taking aggressive steps to be able to prevent hackers with malicious intention from attacking.

Script kiddies:

Script kiddies category belongs to group of different types of hackers who are unskilled and do not have enough information about this field, and they try to infiltrate systems by using the scripts and tools that have been already made, their goal is attracting the attention.

How do hackers create income?

Now that you have an overall view on the hacking subject it is time to discuss the main subject which is about the ways that hackers can get help from, in order to make money, in the following we are going to mention some of the common ways that some of them are legal and most of them are considered as a crime.

-They may use ransomware which is considered as a dangerous software, with the help of which they can block the ways for you to gain access to your system so that you have no other choice, so you have to pay money in order to be able to have control over your system again.

- As we have mentioned above, there are some ethical hackers who are hired in order to find the security holes in the system, and they can resolve the problems that occur after a cyberattack, and they can receive money in this way.

- Social engineering is another way with the help of which they can gain access to your login details and receive money in this way, they will email you with an address which is so similar to a valid email address, but there are some little differences between the fake one and the real one so if you pay attention, you can realize that it is not from a valid address or from a person that you trust, so they also abuse the users' trust in order to gain money.

- By using Trojans they can record the screen while you are working with your system, or they can even see your messages which makes the process of having access to your bank account's data as easy as possible, as a result, they can steal your money with the help of the information that have been collected.

- They can sell users' personal information which have been gained on the dark web and gain money in this way which cause lot of problem for user due to the fact that their identity is stolen and it can be abuse in different ways, as a result, it can be considered as one of the most dangerous threats that you should take the necessary steps to prevent it from happening.

- The other way which hackers can get help from in order to make income is trying to train others and share their information with them, they can use online platforms like YouTube to upload their tutorials.

How to avoid being hacked?

There are lots of steps that can be taken in order to protect your system against possible attacks like using and strong password which should be hard to guess and pay attention to the point that you shouldn't use the same password for multiple accounts because if they can find it, they would have access to all your accounts which is horrible, another way is using two-factor or multi-factor authentication which can protect your account against possible threats (in German: Schützen Sie Ihr Konto vor möglichen Bedrohungen ), the most important step that must be taken is updating regularly due to the fact that new version can be more secure than the old ones because with every updated version the weaknesses will be reduced, and the bugs will be found as well which help you have a secure and safe application that blocks the ways for attackers whose goal is in filtrating through the weak points, it should be noted that there are lots of other ways that you can get help from to be able to protect your data against attackers who want to abuse it to achieve their personal desires, the steps that must be taken in this way have been completely discussed in the articles of our website.

Last word:

In this article we have tried to discuss the most essential part of hacking process like the definition of it, and we have also mentioned some points about the people who are called hackers that use their ability and knowledge in this way as well as different types of them each of which has their unique abilities, the point that should be noted is that their intention is different from each other so that all of them do not have malicious goals, also we have mentioned the ways that hackers usually get help from in order to make money which could be both legal and illegal, in addition, we tried to examine some of the most common ways that you can get help from in order to make your system more secure we hope this article can be useful for you, and you can use the tips and points which have been mentioned to protect your systems against any possible threat.