TOP 10 MOST DANGEROUS HACKERS

TOP 10 MOST DANGEROUS HACKERS OF ALL TIME YOU MUST KNOW
 

According to cyber security ventures the global cybercrime cost is expected to grow and reach 10.5 trillion us dollars by 2025. That’s the cost we have to pay for cybercrimes in this video we bring you the top 10 dangerous computer hackers of all the time

 

 

•          Jeanson james ancheta

 

In the year 2006 Jeanson james ancheta of towney California was charged for controlling huge number of botnets in other words hijacked computers. This was the first time that a hacker was sent to prison for the use of botnet technology and should i use botnets to compromise more than 400000 computers. Advertising companies paid him to install adware or bots on specified systems.

It is also noted that ancieta advertised the sale of his partners to those interested in sending spam or launching DDOS attacks without being identified he was also pleaded guilty for infecting machines at two U.S military sites which earned him more than sixty one thousand dollars jeanson james Ancheta was captured in a well-planned and elaborate sting operation when FBI agents coaxed him in their office on the pretext of collecting computer equipment he was sentenced to nearly 60 months of imprisonment and was ordered to pay 15 000 us dollars to the U.S federal government for hacking their military computers

 

•          Adrian lamo

 

Adrian lamo began his hacking journey by hacking games. He was more likely a Grey Hat Hacker who wanted people to understand the importance of internet security however it went far ahead when he hacked the New York Times internet in 2002. He was called the homeless hacker for his transient lifestyle and he often had no fixed address he used to hack top-notch accounts by sitting in cafeterias, libraries and so on. he was convicted for compromising security at the New York Times Microsoft and Yahoo to name a few he later gained the batch of an American threat analyst he also appeared on good morning America, fox news, democracy now etc. as an expert on net centric crime and incidents lamo died in the year 2018 at the age of 37.

 

•          Kevin poulsen

A former American Black Hat Hacker. in the hacker community he is better known as dark dante at the age of 17 he hacked the us department of defence but he was left with a warning as he was a miner later in 1990 he propelled to stardom for infiltrating a radio show calling contest and guaranteeing that he will be the 102^nd caller to win the brand new Porsche s2 the FBI stated perceiving paulsen and was soon arrested and sentenced to a five years of imprisonment he was also barred from using a computer or internet for three years post his release. later he took into white hat hacking and journalism in the year 2005 he became a senior editor of wired news

•          Jonathan James

 

Jonathan James better known as comrade he was the first juvenile in the United States to be sent to prison for hacking. this famous hack was his intrusion into the defence threat reduction agency or DTRA computers a division of the united states department of defence he installed a backdoor on its servers this enabled him to access over 3000 messages from government employees various user names passwords and other confidential data this helped james steal a piece of NASA software and this forced NASA to shut down computers for three weeks to fix the issue at an estimated cost of 41000 American dollars he was sentenced to six months arrest in 2000 .he carried out his hacking using the alias comrade he specialized in hacking high-profile garment systems however he had a bitter ending in 2008.

 

 

 ·         Anonymous

The anonymous group is an international decentralized hacktivist movement that is widely known for its cyber-attacks against several governments its agencies and the church of scientology. This group is focused on the concept of social justice the members of this group known as anons are recognized in public by wearing guy fox masks. however some members cover their face without using the well-known masks as well they are known as being the digital robin hood amongst its supporters one of the noted incidents was in the year 2008 when the group took up issue with the church of scientology and began to disable their websites they are also known for hacking Vatican the FBI, PayPal, Sony, the CIA, MasterCard, VISA the Israeli, Chinese, Tunisian and Ugandan governments while the law enforcement agencies and FBI have tracked down a few of the group's members the lack of any proper hierarchy makes it almost impossible to distinguish or eliminate the anonymous groups as the whole.

 

•          Mathew Bevan and Richard Price

 

Mathew Bevan and Richard Price in 1994 they hacked into multiple U.S military systems including the defence information system agency, griffiss air force base and the Korean atomic research institute. They infiltrated into foreign systems by transferring critical data of Korean atomic research institute into the United States air force system in 1996 Bevan was arrested for hacking incidents related to U.S air force defence manufacturer, Lockheed, NASA and NATO. The pentagon described bevan as the number one threat to U.S security and possibly the single biggest threat to world peace since adolf hitler. However we even claims he was looking to prove a UFO conspiracy theory in 1997 price was fined 1200 pounds after pleading guilty to 12 offenses of gaining unauthorized access to computer systems in March and April 1994. Having malicious purposes or not bevan and price displayed that even military networks are vulnerable.

 

•          Astra

 

This hacker is a tad bit different from the others on this list as he has never been publicly identified the pen name of this hacker Astra is a Sanskrit word for a weapon. in 2008 it was reported that the authorities apprehended him at that time he was known as a 58 year old Greek Mathematician he had into France’s dissolve group systems and got his hands on wonderful weapons technology data and then sold it to different countries for a long period Astra was reported to have sold the data to nearly 250 people from across the world this in turn cost the salt 360 million us dollars of damage while the Astra’s real identity was never discovered officials have said that he had been wanted since the year 2002.

 

•          Albert Gonzalez

He was responsible for carrying out multiple hacks he is accused of masterminding the biggest fraud in history that is the combined credit card theft and reselling of nearly 170 million card and ATM numbers from the year 2005 to 2007. This shows how unsafe internet banking can be at times this was recorded to be one of the biggest credit card thefts in history he carried out this by installing a sniffer. Albert Gonzalez is also said to have been the mastermind of the TJK companies hack wherein 45.6 million debit and credit numbers were stolen later in 2010 he was sentenced to 20-year in federal prison.

 

•          Gary McKinnon

 

He is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker accused of carrying out the biggest military computer hack of all time in 2002 he identified himself as solo through an odd message on a U.S army computer it was later found to be Gary McKinnon he was accused of infiltrating 97 united states military and NASA computers by installing virus and deleting a few files over 13 months between February 2001 and March 2002 this was the biggest military computer attack of all time this shutdown the U.S military's Washington network for 24 hours what is fascinating is his reason that much of his hacking was in search of information on UFOs that he believed the U.S government was hiding in its military computers.

 

•          Kevin mitnick

The now affluent American entrepreneur was one of the most wanted cyber-criminal of US once upon a time Kevin who is currently a security consultant was once convicted of hacking Motorola, nokia and pentagon. Kevin mastered computer hacking and social engineering early and got his start as a team in 1982 he hacked north American defence command this achievement inspired the 1983 film war games in 1989 he hacked digital equipment corporation’s network and made copies of their software it's largely believed that he once obtained full control of pacific pals network to merely prove that it could be done. He never exploited the data he obtained according to reports mitnick gained unauthorized access to a dozens of computer networks while he was a fugitive after five years of imprisonment mitnick started afresh and became a security consultant his knack with computers is still remembered.

All of these hackers were unbelievably skilled in cyber code few of them faced jail in time a few of others ever since put their cyber skills to better use by becoming security advisors and helping humankind hacking skills aren't a form of criminal behavior if it is put to good use.

 

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