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What do blackhats actually gain? - ShadowPacket_ - Sep 13, 2026
I'm not talking about the ones you hear on the news, but the many others who attack individuals. It seems to me that most of the time the risk greatly outways the potential positives. Are there other motives other than money for the actual skilled blackhats that target individuals? Ego? Power? Knowledge?
RE: What do blackhats actually gain? - Terry A. Davis - Sep 13, 2026
Money, fear, respect, entitlement.
What do you gain from being a nice person?
RE: What do blackhats actually gain? - ShadowPacket_ - Sep 13, 2026
(Sep 13, 2026 03:46 PM)Terry A. Davis Wrote: Money, fear, respect, entitlement.
What do you gain from being a nice person?
Absolutely nothing, always comes back and bites me in the arse.
RE: What do blackhats actually gain? - Sift - Sep 13, 2026
Money, fear, respect and often just the joy of a successful attack.
RE: What do blackhats actually gain? - CyberXero - Sep 13, 2026
A sense of accomplishment,
RE: What do blackhats actually gain? - XtremeDiscount - Sep 13, 2026
Money mostly lol
RE: What do blackhats actually gain? - clark.dll - Sep 14, 2026
Leverage, money, sense of accomplishment.
It just depends on who the target is relative to the attacker.
RE: What do blackhats actually gain? - leste0 - Sep 14, 2026
Financial freedom or a 10-year federal sentence, with very little middle ground. The Hollywood trope died a long time ago—it’s just an industry with terrible retirement benefits.
RE: What do blackhats actually gain? - m1000 - Sep 14, 2026
Some people just do things because they can... That's part of being human, whether it's good or bad. Most of the time black hats are after financial gain or clout.
RE: What do blackhats actually gain? - Binance - Sep 14, 2026
Prison sentences.
Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow; but eventually they come for you. Whether you think you're too big, too small, too safe; nobody can out-resource law enforcement.
RE: What do blackhats actually gain? - SIM-5022267 - Sep 16, 2026
I don't understand how blackhats still exist when our entire internet and devices are all being watched by the government, LOL.