Experts from the Group-IB group, which specializes in the prevention of cybercrime and Internet fraud, attributed the income of hackers to movies and serials.
The average monthly income of hackers in the Internet was about $ 10,000. The income of Internet hackers depends on advertisers, the most important illegal sites for gaming and the Internet casino.
These "blocked" sites are advertised directly on modern movies that can be viewed and downloaded from hacker sites, which receive about $ 3 per 1,000 views per movie.
The Internet Expert Bulletin also notes that the creation of a single hacker's site costs about $ 240, allowing site owners to recoup the cost of the site very quickly, in addition to fictitious profits they receive from advertisers.
All this has become easier and cheaper for hackers because of the consolidation of pirate servers around the world, and the acceleration of data transfer using "CDN-services".
Half of the films released in 2018 were uploaded to the Internet via illegal websites. The number of pirated users increased by 12% in 2017.
