Hacking as a Service Poses a Threat to SMB’s

At Quatrashield our Hacking as a Service offering includes both black box and white box penetration testing.  What we don’t provide – under any circumstances – is a service that can be used by 3^rd parties to hacking into the websites or systems of someone else.

That’s not to say that Hacking as a Service is not a burgeoning and profitable business.   In fact, there are three unique service areas under the cyber-crime as a service umbrella:

1)      Password cracking:  Buyers provide a target’s name and email alias and then hire to retrieve the password on the account.

2)       Denial-of-service:  DoS attacks (or distributed denial-of-service [DDos] attacks send a large amount of traffic to the target, thereby disrupting normal service levels.

3)      Credit card fraud:  Hackers are hired to steal a victim’s credit card and/or other critical banking information.