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Bryce Case Jr. (born August 23, 1982), otherwise known as YTCracker (pronounced "whitey cracker"), is an American rapper from La Mirada, California. His stage name derives from having formerly been a black hat hacker. Case is best known for his contributions to the hacking community along with nerdcore hip hop subculture.
A black hat (black hat hacker or blackhat) is a computer hacker who violates laws or ethical standards for nefarious purposes, such as cybercrime, cyberwarfare, or malice. These acts can range from piracy to identity theft. A black hat is often referred to as a "cracker". [1]
Kane Gamble or known online as Cracka (born October 2, 1999) is a British hacker from Coalville, Leicester, who lead a hacking group called Crackas With Attitude (CWA), responsible for hacking US government networks and email and phone accounts of several US government officials (including the US Department of Justice network, former CIA chief John Brennan, the former director of national ...
Empress (sometimes stylized EMPRESS) is a video game cracker who specializes in breaking anti-piracy software. While the true identity of Empress is unknown, she refers to herself as a young Russian woman. [1] [2] Empress has also released cracked games under the moniker C000005. [3] Empress is known as one of the few crackers who can crack Denuvo.
A cracker is like a black hat hacker, [16] but is specifically someone who is very skilled and tries via hacking to make profits or to benefit, not just to vandalize. Crackers find exploits for system vulnerabilities and often use them to their advantage by either selling the fix to the system owner or selling the exploit to other black hat ...
Noname057(16) a Russian speaking hacker group, attacks aligned with Russia's invasion in Ukraine; OurMine, a hacker group of unknown origin that has compromised various websites and Twitter accounts as a way of advertising their "professional services". P.H.I.R.M., an early hacking group that was founded in the early 1980s.
Nuwere's early life is documented in his autobiography, Hacker cracker: a journey from the mean streets of Brooklyn to the frontiers of cyberspace, written with David Chanoff. Despite the title, it is not focused solely on hacking.
Software crackers usually did not benefit materially from their actions and their motivation was the challenge itself of removing the protection. [2] Some low skilled hobbyists would take already cracked software and edit various unencrypted strings of text in it to change messages a game would tell a game player, often something considered vulgar.