Many BellTroxes: Delhi is now India’s hacker hub

Findings by the Citizen Lab, a Toronto University-based internet watchdog, on Indian outfit BellTroX’s “hacking for hire” operations came as no surprise to India’s growing ethical hacker community.

New Delhi today has emerged as an important hub in the Indian hacker story. A simple Google search for hackers in Delhi would throw up at least 100, if not more, privately-owned “technical” ethical-hacking institutes, which offer everything from training a school or college dropout to become a hacker to certifying him or her, as per global standards.

“Koi bhi hacker ban sakta hai…,” (anyone can be a hacker) says an owner of an “ethical hacking institute” in East Delhi. He didn’t want to be named, neither did many other hackers ET spoke to.