Grey Hat Hackers

Gray hat hacker falls between white hat hackers and black hast hackers. Meaning, gray hat hackers take features from both black hat and white hat hacking techniques. These types of hackers look for security vulnerabilities in organizational assets without the permission or knowledge owners. Moreover, gray hat hackers may sometimes transgress laws or usual ethical standards, but they do not have the malicious motives typical of the black hat hackers. Black hackers are cybercriminals who attempts to break into information and information systems of an organization illegally for stealing information and intellectual property (IP). White hat hackers, like black hat hackers, attempt to break into networks and information systems but do so with a permission from the owner of the asset. Whereas grey hat hackers sit somewhere in between the black and the white hat hackers. These hackers break into information system without written permission from the owner of the asset illegally but with no known malicious intent. Grey hat hackers report their exploitation and may ask some amount of money for their work but usually do not stage malicious activities after they found out and exploit the weaknesses.