India- The New Talent Hotspot For Cyber Criminals


Another security firm, ESET, says a hacker group from India engaged in industrial espionage and spying on political activists. The victims of this attack resided in many countries, and particularly in Pakistan.

Overall, there is no estimate in the number of ‘hirable’ Indian hackers. According to security personnel, “the number of attacks from India was rising, but they could not pinpoint individual attacks that could be attributed to Indian hackers.”Diwakar Dayal, who leads security sales for Cisco in South Asia says, "It used to be the eastern European countries that had the skilled manpower to provide hackers for hire, but now we can see that moving to emerging economies like India and Sri Lanka where job opportunities have shrunk."

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