Institute For Ethical Hacking Course and Ethical Hacking Training in Pune – India

Extreme Hacking | Sadik Shaikh | Cyber Suraksha Abhiyan 

Credits: DailyMail

Organised gangs are making big money by ‘rigging’ most online examinations by leaking question papers and solving them via computers on remote access.

The news comes as part of an investigation by the Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh.

According to STF sleuths, modern day ‘Munnabhais’ have found a crack code in online entrance/recruitment examinations by taking control of computers of exam centres on remote access.

The pan-India gangs are now compromising the computers and cheating by deploying solvers to fill online question papers from a distant location in an organised manner.

The revelation came after the arrest of seven members of a gang allegedly involved in leaking a question paper of an online examination for sub-inspectors (SI) last month.

The examination was organised by the UP Police Recruitment Board from July 7-31 at 97 centres across the state. The test, however, was cancelled after the question paper was leaked on July 24 on social media platforms of WhatsApp and Facebook.

Investigations revealed that several gangs are active in the business and a gang can make over Rs 15 crore per examination depending upon the nature of the same.

According to police, all entrance tests are now online, including banking, railway, staff selection commission and other integrated common entrance tests.

These are usually conducted on Sundays and due to lack of infrastructure (computer and internet) private colleges, institutes and schools are roped in as online test partners.

Police claim it is here the problem starts as these gangs in nexus with examination centres, compromise the computers by installing remote access software.

At the time of exam, the solver is either sitting in a five-star hotel or a car garage, and completes the paper on behalf of the applicant, without coming in the radar of cops.

‘Our investigation revealed that criminals have made leaking examination papers and manipulating computer systems their full time business. Exams have been made online to bring more transparency, but criminals, in nexus with local exam centres, are running multi-crore rackets,’ said UP STF’s additional superintendent Triveni Singh.

Police say the gangs not only take remote access of computers, but also leak question papers stored in the central servers.

‘In this case, the paper was stored in a central server based in Mumbai, which could be accessed by local servers at each centres.

Only officials of the third party company conducting the tests can access it through their computers, but gang members compromise the computers and leak the paper in advance,’ Singh added.

He said most third party firms hired to conduct tests lack online security measures and ignore physical, administrative and technical counter measures. During investigation, barely any CCTV footage or other evidence could be gathered as examination firms flouted most rules.

Some examination centres have even found this as a luscious business.

‘All online tests are done in partnership with leading IT firms that further delegate the work to local and private exam centres where criminals find loopholes and compromise the system by paying handsome money.

Seating arrangements and computers of the candidates are also identified in advance,’ Singh said.

www.extremehacking.org

Sadik Shaikh | Cyber Suraksha Abhiyan, Ethical Hacking Training Institute, CEHv9,CHFI,ECSAv9,CAST,ENSA, CCNA, CCNA SECURITY,MCITP,RHCE,CHECKPOINT, ASA FIREWALL,VMWARE,CLOUD,ANDROID,IPHONE,NETWORKING HARDWARE,TRAINING INSTITUTE IN PUNE, Certified Ethical Hacking,Center For Advanced Security Training in India, ceh v9 course in Pune-India, ceh certification in pune-India, ceh v9 training in Pune-India, Ethical Hacking Course in Pune-India