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Here's a gray market "business model": - Hacker H hacks site, injects cryptomining script - Because H doesn't want other hackers to do the same, he will make
by dmichulke 9y ago
Here's a gray market "business model":
- Hacker H hacks site, injects cryptomining script
- Because H doesn't want other hackers to do the same, he will make the site secure and thereby kind of "maintain" it (in a security sense)
- Because H doesn't want the site to slow down endlessly, he will use cryptomining "as much as possible" while still keeping the site sufficiently responsive (otherwise traffic would go down and net income would decrease in the long run)
End result: a kind of a symbiotic relationship between a gray hat hacker and a standard web content provider.
- PietdeVries 9y agoI have heard of malware that does more or less the same: exploit a vulnerability, but patch it as soon as it has access to prevent others from exploiting it too. While your plan makes sense, I can see a future where there are two big gray-market parties left that use the equipment under their control to attack the other party, and not mine crypto...
- usrusr 9y agoNothing gray about that. But it could make an entertaining short story, with H eventually sitting in meetings with everybody not realizing that nobody hired him, H himself slowly forgetting that, an intermediate crisis when H's position is threatened after a merger and a dramatic finale when all is revealed after H is chosen as the next CEO.