Black Hats, Grey Masks, State Ghosts

[Intro — whispered]
Some people become examples.
Some people become warnings.
Some people become a ghost in the wires

[Verse 1 — Lazarus]
Lazarus, cold state hands,
fake job bait and crypto scams.
Wallet drain, proxy chain,
money leaves without a trace

[Chorus]
Black hats, gray masks, state ghosts,
who gets in and who gets close?
Keys get lifted, doors get crossed,
some chase truth and some count costs.

Black hats, gray masks, state ghosts,
names in wires, names in hosts.
Love them, fear them, loathe them most—
black hats, gray masks, state ghosts.

[Verse 2 — Kevin Mitnick]
Mitnick worked the human gate,
phone-line charm and borrowed faith.
Social engineering art,
hack the head before the chart.

[Chorus]
Black hats, gray masks, state ghosts,
who gets in and who gets close?
Keys get lifted, doors get crossed,
some chase truth and some are lost.

[Verse 3 — Paige Thompson / erratic]
Paige Thompson, then erratic,
S-S-R-F, the cloud goes static.
Metadata through a trusted gate,
Transgirl hacker people love to hate.

[Chorus]
Black hats, gray masks, state ghosts,
names in wires, names in hosts.
Love them, fear them, loathe them most—
black hats, gray masks, state ghosts.

[Verse 4 — Heartbleed]
Heartbleed, Open S-SL,
memory leak from a trusted shell.
Not one crew, just code gone weak,
servers bled what they shouldn’t speak.

[Verse 5 — Anonymous]
Anonymous, borrowed face,
DDoS from no fixed place.
Dox drop, mask up, fools scream how,
gray-mask storm in a leaderless cloud.

[Final Verse — Fancy Bear]
Fancy Bear, Russian-GRU,
spear-phish hook will capture you.
Poisoned docs, credential snare,
feel the claw before it’s there.

[Final Chorus]
Black hats, gray masks, state ghosts,
who gets in and who gets close?
Keys get lifted, doors get crossed,
some chase truth and some count cost.

Black hats, gray masks, state ghosts,
names in wires, names in hosts.
Love them, fear them, loathe them most—
black hats, gray masks, state ghosts.