BLACK HACKING
A black hat hacker (or black-hat hacker) is a hacker who "violates computer security for little reason beyond maliciousness or for personal gain".[1]
The term was coined by Richard Stallman, to contrast the maliciousness of a criminal hacker versus the spirit of playfulness and exploration of hacker culture, or the ethos of the white hat hacker (or white-hat hacker), who performs hackerly duties to identify places to repair.[2] The black hat and white hat terminology originates in Western films, wherein heroic and antagonistic cowboys might traditionally wear a white and a black hat respectively.[3]
Black hat hackers form the stereotypical, illegal hacking groups often portrayed in popular culture, and are "the epitome of all that the public fears in a computer criminal".[4]Black hat hackers break into secure networks to destroy, ransom, modify, or steal data, or to make the networks unusable for authorized network users.[5]4h
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