Indian Politicians Hire Hackers to Spy on Their Opponents

[DrBeenGolfing]

Some Indian politicians have stopped using their smartphones for important communications after news broke out that hackers were being hired by their political opponents.

Times of India reports that hackers and security experts are being offered Rs 1 lakh ($1,852 / €1,416) and sometimes even more to breach the smartphones of ministers, members of the legislative assembly and members of parliament.

N Nityanand, CTO of Entersoft Information systems at Ameerpet, says that he has been approached on numerous occasions and offered as much money as he wanted to break into the email accounts of top politicians. Nityanand has refused for ethical reasons, but not everyone is like him.

Usually, the hackers are contacted by mediators of the political leaders who don’t name the individuals they represent. They want to be able to intercept phone calls, text messages, emails and anything else that might be of interest.

To gain control of the smartphones of politicians, the hackers send out emails that point to cleverly designed websites. When the links from the emails are clicked, a malicious software is downloaded onto the device.

One of the pieces of malware utilized by the hackers is the NotCompatible Trojan.
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[Vextor]

Wow - India is such a corrupt country in so many ways. It's just astonishing what some people will do just so that they can get some power within the Government.

 

[Nico@FMA]

Wow - India is such a corrupt country in so many ways. It's just astonishing what some people will do just so that they can get some power within the Government.

Well thats actually funny that you call India corrupt, (which i will not deny) but imo the US is not much better as the many laws allow intelligence services to access any data at any time without even a warrant.
Not to mention the huge amount of data they collect based upon certain keywords and phrases.
So its my fair assumption that there will be some spying in the US itself on a pretty epic scale as has been pointed out by multiple sources both US and Internationally based.

But the real money maker here is China and both Korea's they literally spy and hack everything that is wired and unwired..lmao.

Just saying.

 

[Vextor]

Wow - India is such a corrupt country in so many ways. It's just astonishing what some people will do just so that they can get some power within the Government.

Well thats actually funny that you call India corrupt, (which i will not deny) but imo the US is not much better as the many laws allow intelligence services to access any data at any time without even a warrant.
Not to mention the huge amount of data they collect based upon certain keywords and phrases.
So its my fair assumption that there will be some spying in the US itself on a pretty epic scale as has been pointed out by multiple sources both US and Internationally based.

But the real money maker here is China and both Korea's they literally spy and hack everything that is wired and unwired..lmao.

Just saying.

Yeah, it's true. A lot of Governments are so corrupt, and yet nothing will really happen unless action is taken on an international stage - which would require the support of many, many countries.

And even then, you wouldn't be able to completely remove corruption. Everything is corrupt, really.

 

[jamescv7]

Clearly a dirty tactics and politics isn't never become a good system around the world.

There's always a place for problems.