How many times have you heard someone say “Nobody would want to attack my computer.”? I’ve heard it too many times to count. I even hear it from some of the businesses I work with.
Well Brian Krebs, author of the “Krebs on Security” blog published an article on the subject. It includes the picture below.
As you can see there are lots of reasons for anyone to hack your system — and not just to steal from you. Professional and even wanna be hackers don’t use their own systems. They use the hacked systems of others as a platform to attack other people and organizations that have money. They do this as a way to make it harder to track their criminal behavior back to themselves.
Click here to read the whole post
One of the most telling comments in the post is this:
“nearly every aspect of a hacked computer and a user’s online life can be and has been commoditized. If it has value and can be resold, you can be sure there is a service or product offered in the cybercriminal underground to monetize it. I haven’t yet found an exception to this rule.“
Hackers even sell the bots they have installed on your system to other hackers! Why go through the hassle of hacking yet another system, when you can easily buy access to an already hacked system?
So when people say “nobody would want to hack my computer”, just look at them with a knowing smile and say “how do you know they haven’t already?”
