What a hacker can do for you and how much it costs (generally)
Hackers can do everything from hijacking corporate email accounts to stealing millions of dollars from online bank accounts.
While many hackers have malign intentions, there are white hat hackers who help companies find security holes and protect sensitive information.
In the following sections, we discuss some of the many things a hacker can do for you.
Some parts of the internet are like dark alleys where shady characters lurk.
Are you worried that your girlfriend is cheating on you? There’s a hacker on the dark web who can access her email and social media accounts if you’re willing to slip past legal and ethical boundaries.
Hackers today are easy to find – you don’t have to delve too deep into the dark web to find them.
You can hire an ethical hacker for as little as $300 on Hiremehacker. “White hats” identify security holes in your website and plug them to protect it from malicious attacks.
There are other hacking websites that openly advertise services of questionable legality, offering everything from Skype to Gmail to your college grades.
According to the SecureWorks report and other advertisements on the web, here are seven hacks for sale and hacking service prices right now, if you need a hacker or just want to learn more.
Here are seven hacks for sale right now, according to the SecureWorks report and other advertisements on the web, if you need a hacker or just want to learn more about it.
- Online bank heist: $400 and up
SecureWorks reports that you’ll pay hackers 1% to 5% of the money you drain from an online bank account.
In order to hack a US-based account and steal $10,000, for instance, you would need to pay a hacker around $400, and accounts with smaller balances result in higher fees.
- Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack: $50 – $250 per hour
According to Kaspersky Labs, DDoS attacks average $250 per hour.
Kaspersky estimates it costs $50 to overwhelm a server for five minutes and $700 to block legitimate users for an entire day. According to SecureWorks, the price is slightly lower at $70 an hour or $300 per day.
- Infiltrate Instagram: $700
SecureWorks estimates it costs $700 to hack into an Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, or other social media account.
- Rewards points transfer: $300 to $750
The price of siphoning loyalty program points from someone’s account depends on the number of points.
According to SecureWorks, hacks for hotel rewards points start at $300 for 100,000 points and go up to $800 for 1,000,000 points.
The cost of 200,000 frequent flyer miles on US airlines starts at $60. With $650, you can buy 2,500,000 miles and, most likely, a trip around the world (possibly to a country without extradition treaties).
- Break into a cell phone: $400.60/month or more
To hack and monitor an Android device (version 4.0 or later), you can use the Copy9 app. Paying $21.60 a month for the app is the only way to use it.
There are 18 different features in Copy9, including GPS tracking and sound recording. Even when the phone is offline, the app tracks the hacked phone’s information, and once it’s connected to the internet, all data is uploaded.
Installing the spyware app on the target phone requires you to hold it in your hand. It costs between $500 and $5,000 to hire a hacker to access your phone remotely, according to one Quora user.
- Hijack corporate email: $1000 and up
It costs $429 to hack a Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail account, but $1000 to hack a corporate email account, according to SecureWorks.
The majority of corporate scams involve phishing, which involves sending phony emails masquerading as a known partner in order to steal usernames, passwords, financial data, or other sensitive information.
Based on the FBI’s Internet Crime Report, corporate email hacks drained over $676 million from company coffers in 2017.
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