I've seen streams from these Tranny "hackers". They pretty much employ entry-level hacker tactics like phishing. They only thing they legitimately know how to hack is their own home router.

Ooh cool! You installed a custom firmware on your Linksys router! So elite!

They pretty much read whitepapers for certain tech (like bruteforcing SSL encryption) on their youtube channels and then expose data they "hacked" by reading messages from people they tried to/successfully phished.