Cybercrime offers fast rewards since hackers can make millions from a single attack. The lure of making millions in a few days is drawing more people, including highly-intelligent professionals, into cybercrime. This is coupled with the fact that hackers today do not even need to know how to code, because they can rent the hacking tools. As was covered before, there are expert hackers who rent out exploit kits. There are others who rent out botnets to be used to carry out DDoS attacks. Therefore, newcomers to hacking think that they will find it quite easy to start off today due to the readily available tools. The existing hackers are already making money and will not be willing to stop doing so because of their greed. Due to this greed, hackers will keep on coming up with new hacking tools to sustain their sources of income. Greed also motivates them to keep looking for vulnerabilities to exploit in systems. A hacker knows that a new vulnerability, unknown to others, could easily translate to millions, and so they are ready to undertake scanning across several systems used by different organizations just to find one that has vulnerabilities. Greed is also a motivator in phishing, where a hacker goes to make clones of authoritative companies, write phishing emails laid out exactly like those of authoritative companies, orĀ use spoof email addresses of executives in organizations to be used for hacking. The hacker is greedy for money and will do all it takes to create the perfect tool or technique to carry out a successful cyber-attack.