Hacking Phase 4 - Maintaining Access

Phase 4 - Maintaining Access

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Maintaining Access refers to the phase when the hacker tries to retain his 'ownership' of the system.
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The hacker has exploited a vulnerability and can tamper and compromise the system.
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Sometimes, hackers harden the system from other hackers as well (to own the system) by securing their exclusive access with Backdoors, RootKits, Trojans and Trojan horse Backdoors.
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Hackers can upload, download or manipulate data / applications / configurations on the 'owned' system.