Hello Hackers!!!
I hope you guys understood the things which were discussed in it. So, in continuation of it, we will discuss other types of hackers here and also some other topics as well.
=> Red Hat Hackers:- In simple language, red hat hackers are those ones who are like white hats but not good for them who tried to become black hat ones. They use to hack back them who hacks just to earn money or to take revenge, instead of reporting any vulnerability to anyone. They perform hacks by uploading various types of malwares, by performing DOS or DDOS attack in order to destroy their computer from inside. They have a kind of aggressive nature of punishing the culprits by hacking them back, and they hacks in such a way that those bad hackers need to buy new computer.
=> Blue Hat Hackers:- Blue Hat Hackers are those hackers who have an intention of taking revenge from those who has done something against their wish. They will be script kiddies only, but when the intention of taking revenge comes in mind, that script kiddie becomes a blue hat hacker.
=> Script Kiddies:- These are the dangerous ones as they don't have any deep or proper knowledge of hacking. They uses the scripts or tools made by some experienced person and use it to hack into something in order to show off or to harm someone just to prove themselves as a hacker. They only use pre-written tools and scripts and don't have the knowledge on how that tool or script works.
=> Hacktivists:- Hacktivists are those hackers who use to hack just to spread some social, religious or political thoughts. Just like social activists in real world, they does same in the digital world using some cool gadgets. They may hack government as well in order to show their anger and oppose towards them. It can be also done to gain attention of whole world.
=> Noobs / Green Hat Hackers:- Noobs are also known as Green Hat Hackers. These are the type of hackers who has some knowledge more than script kiddies and want to know as much as they can in the world of hacking. They are often found at some hackers' meetups, some events based on cyber security and hacking like places. Their main aim is to gain more knowledge from the experts.
=> Crackers:- The intention of cracking into the computer systems, separates crackers from the hackers. Hackers have a motive of find flaw or vulnerability into the system, while crackers don't care about that. They just wants to crack into a system in order to gain access of it. They are not much skilled than hackers.
=> Social Engineers:- In very simple words, social engineers are those hackers who first tries to gain trust of the victims by becoming their friends or close ones and then starts extracting all personal and confidential details from them in order to have the victims all user IDs and passwords. They may sometimes perform identity theft kind of attacks.
=> Nation / State Hackers:- These are the hackers which are sponsored by the nation or the state in order to keep an eye on their enemy nation/state online. They are highly skilled professionals who are offered with good amount just to hack into other nation's or state's websites,servers and systems to know their current working and planning against them.
So, these are the other types of hackers in the community of cyber security. I hope you guys understood their intentions and the reasons that why they are distinguished into different colors and terms.
