Do Hackers Get Pensions & Sick Pay?

Kaspersky research has shown that hackers are now being recruited with dark web job ads offering huge salaries and benefits!  

What?! 

According to Kaspersky’s analysis of more than 200,000 employment ads posted on the dark web between January 2020 and June 2022, ‘employers’ have been seeking applications from the best hackers by offering favourable terms of employment including remote work (obviously), full-time employment, flexitime, paid time off, paid sick leave, and even the promise of working with 'a friendly team' ! 

Massive Salaries 

If the research by Kaspersky’s Digital Footprint Intelligence team is accurate, it seems that online crime does pay. For example, the median levels of pay offered to IT professionals in the ads varied between $1,300 and $4,000 per month.