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I know someone who’s company were dealing in payments and they were being targeted by persistent DDoS attacks, hacking attempts, and even supply chain attacks (received modified hardware).
No ransom were made. If you read the articles about the biggest DDoS attacks CloudFlare had mitigated last year? That was them.
The attackers had found when they took down their services banks would go to a fallback solution and not require 3D-secure. When they were down - they could buy bitcoins with stolen credit cards.
And this was their day-job. Attacks occurred basically for 8 hours a day, five days a week. They would take holidays, both seasonal and four to five weeks of summer holidays.
So clearly, fully possible to build a career in.
I should note that when the objective was understood they talked to their bank clients, explained the MO and they all shut down their fallback solutions.