Hackers charge $399 to hack Social media accounts, $200 to $350 for Snapchat, WhatsApp.
If you have ever searched for hacker online or on the dark-web, you definitely would have come across several online forums who actually claim to provide hackers in case you want to get someone’s Website, Facebook, Gmail, WhatsApp, Netflix etc hacked?
The grand and Mysterious “World Wide Web” can be a dilemma for the naive, searching for the desired items may open a Pandora box of forbidden gifts.
It is no secret that the internet is a familiar place for black market offerings such as: Firearms and drugs or hackers offering fee for hacking lessons. These hackers also provide an array of services most likely to be illegal.
A quick glimpse of few illegal services and their rates:
Hacking a generic website:
Approximately $2,000, most hackers are available on Reddit-like forums. There are plenty but these Hackers prefer anonymity and want dispersed modular payments for their offered services. One person even posted an ad offering as steep as 2k Euro for a Phishing WordPress-built website.
There are multiple underground markets on the dark web where one can buy guns, malware, stolen credit cards, drugs, personal info or credentials to various services, such as social media accounts and Netflix accounts. But, what if someone wants to orchestrate a customized attack against a certain organization or an individual? In that case the darknet offers another service - hirea hacker
“The Hacker for Hire pages do not go into detail on how they break into the accounts or how they retrieve the passwords. More than likely, they are doing this by using credential harvesters, phishing emails, or trying leaked passwords that might have been exposed in a third-party data breach,” the report said.
Hackers also offer to changeschool grades and universities, steal the teacher’s email password and change details like grades or class schedules. Many HfH groups are also offering hacking courses for those who want to learn how to hack on their own. The courses range from defacements to credential harvesting with step-by-step instructions or videos provided.
WhatsApp: $200 – $300
WhatsApp is in the list of most desirable hacked programs where hackers are mostly charging $200 to $300.
A Tool to hack Facebook accounts: $199.99 for 3 month
One website is offering a downloadable tool called Facebook Hacker, to hack any Facebook account and people who used it successfully done so.
Company reviews: $3 – $350
A hacker offered boosting Yelp ratings for positive reviews for as low as $3 a pop. Some hackers even claimed to remove negative reviews. Also found was a series of follow up programs costing $350 going for months which promise to persistently post good reviews remove bad ones and ensure no negative reviews show up on their business page.
Gmail account access: $90
A website called Hire247hacker.com, lists Hacking projects by anonymous users which they want to be finished, although not all get through but some make the mark, one user asked for a Gmail account hack and they projects closing bid was $99.
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