Certified Professional vs Hacker

May 19th, 2025 (Last edited on May 28th 2025)
Matteo Mathieu - BreachBang Founder

Right now, on forums like Exploit, XSS, and RAMP, threat actors are trading access to corporate networks like baseball cards. Your company might already be on their list, and you wouldn't even know it.

Here's what your current security team isn't telling you:

They're not watching these forums. They can't even access them. While ransomware groups plan their next moves in broad daylight, most security professionals are updating compliance spreadsheets.

The $10 Billion Question

Ransomware is a thriving industry because traditional cybersecurity has failed. Not because the threats are sophisticated—they're not. The same tired tactics work over and over:

- Automated attacks on exposed services (RDP, SSH, VNC)
- Public exploits against systems that should've been patched
- Social engineering that follows predictable patterns

These aren't advanced persistent threats. They're basic attacks that succeed because your defenders are playing the wrong game.

Compliance ≠ Security

You've invested millions in certifications, frameworks, and 100-page risk assessments. Yet breaches keep happening. Why?

Because real security comes from people who think like attackers, not auditors. People who write code, not just policies. People who've seen how systems actually break, not how they theoretically might.

At BreachBang, we don't manage risk—we eliminate it.

Our Difference

We're not consultants. We're hackers who chose defense.

- We monitor the same forums where your attackers coordinate
- We patch the holes they're actively exploiting
- We think like them, move like them, but we're on your side

This isn't about compliance checkboxes or security theater. This is about keeping your name off ransomware blogs and your data out of criminal hands.

The Choice

You can keep doing what you've been doing—hiring certified professionals, following best practices, hoping for different results.

Or you can work with people who understand that cybersecurity isn't a business function. It's digital warfare. And in war, you need warriors.

BreachBang: Real Hackers. Real Defense. Real Results.
Because the best defense isn't just knowing how systems work—it's knowing how they break.