How do anonymous grey hat hacking groups consistently find windows entrypoints and exploits to sell to people? Do they have botnets brute forcing random things to try and find glitches in recent patches?

Question

Do they use botnets or something to brute force random things to find glitches to exploit?

In: Technology

Answer 1

The answer to your question lies in the fact that for every Microsoft/Apple/Whatever software vendor employee that is really good at their programming job, there are 10 hackers who are better.

The best programmers out there are not employed by Microsoft, or even by Governments. They are the dudes that get off on cracking everyone elses stuff to prove they are the best.

The largest corporations spend billions of dollars employing entire teams of people to program security and one guy breaks them. It’s about who is the best, and the best are only ever employed if they get caught.