Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by KHRZ on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @03:20AM
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India already have the reputation for their "IT support departments" calling everyone in the world every few months to try to gain access to their computer, also known as social engineering, a form of hacking. Many of their operation centers have been exposed, yet the Indian government has not been able to stop it. China also has 1.4 billion people, and they indeed are more known than India for being a serious black hat threat. But if you ask the average person what kind of hacker they are more familiar with, they will probably recall the 10+ times they were personally called by a hacker with a strong Indian accent.
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Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by Scaevolus on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @03:56AM
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India has ~150 million English speakers, while China has ~10 million.
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by runsWphotons on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:13AM
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All chinese people speak English. They just pretend not to sometimes to mess with you.
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by jhanschoo on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:18AM
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What is your claim based on?
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by hxugufjfjf on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @05:16AM
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It was a joke.
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by quantum_state on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @07:01AM
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It’s worrisome that many companies out source their IT there …
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by red-iron-pine on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @09:27AM
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That's slowing down; Mexico City and the Philippines are becoming more popular.
PI because of long standing ties to the US and Canada, and eligbility for things like TFW workers in Canada. Mexico City for timezones and NAFTA TN visas.
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by unmole on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @12:57AM
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> That's slowing down;
That's not what the IT export numbers say.
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by vinu76jsr on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:51AM
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I always thought they were scammers, never have I heard them to refer to as hackers except in this thread.
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by carlmr on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:56AM
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Social engineering counts as hacking, even if it doesn't require much specialized technical finesse.
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by BiteCode_dev on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @08:33AM
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You can be both
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by aziaziazi on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @06:33AM
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The reputation you describe is non existant in my (non-English-speaking) country. I guess US and UK are just the easiest and richest targets for Indian hackers. Why should we expect something else ?
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by fakedang on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @07:39AM
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It's the language barrier. Germany is targeted by Turks and Eastern Europeans in similar fashion.
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by magnusmundus on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @08:30AM
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I think you severely overestimate German speakership in Turkey.
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by dspillett on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @09:15AM
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I think the point was more that there are fewer German speakers in India than English speakers, by a large margin, so if you are going to scam in German you might be more likely to source your call-centre operatives from elsewhere, which is why Indian call centres don't have the reputation in that country which they do in the UK & US.
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by felixg3 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @07:39PM
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Some of them might be former residents of Germany. Most of my spam calls came from Tunisia, Morocco, Turkey or Bulgaria, most of the spoken German was pretty decent. Good old times when I had time for scambaiting.
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by zirgs on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @07:18AM
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Good thing that this only affects English speaking countries.
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by Z7YCx5ieof4Std on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:09AM
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It made me really allergic for the word kindly combine with Sir
Sir , kindly xxxxxx = Indian scammer
Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry
by dredmorbius on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @10:00PM
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The fact that general English language proficiency is far greater in India (where English is an official language) than China ... may have something to do with this.
Boiler-room telephony operations tend to follow linguistic capabilities. The Philippines is another locale with widespread English-language capabilities and a low prevailing wage rate, though it seems less associated with technical scams than India is.