New Delhi: Groups that hacked the GMAT online exam, answered questions and also increased the candidate’s score was captured by the Cyber ​​Delhi Police Unit.
Six people have been arrested.
Two Russian hackers were employed by groups to access the exam portal and the police had contacted the Russian embassy officials to get details of the duo who had traveled to India.
Police operations were carried out for 10 days in several places, including Mumbai, Rajasthan and Haryana.
This group is believed to have 18 candidates for cleaning GMAT, which assesses aspirants of the management program, while helping 500 candidates in other exams as well.
TimesviewCovid or no covid, an online exam is here to stay.
That’s why the regular surface of the online racket online is a big concern problem.
The authorities must tighten the security parameters to make the procedure fail.
Such criminals, who attacked the roots of the education system in the country, deserved a strong punishment.
Malhotra, DCP (Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations), said on Wednesday, “We received information that some students pay large quantities to train the center To get a good score in the GMAT and other competitive exams.
A police officer posed as a candidate who wanted a better score in GMAT and contacted one of the defendants.
He said he belonged to a poor family and wanted to get a good score in GMAT.
Bargain Starting around Rs 6 Lakh and completed at Rs 4 Lakh.
The initial payment was made online with the rest to be paid as a lumpsum after receiving the score.
As promised, the men got a score of 780 from 800.
“Police arrested Arshad Dhunna (39) , Salman Dhunna (28) and Hemal Shah (42), all residents of Mumbai, Kunal Goel (39), a resident of Delhi, and Mohit Sharma (3 5) and Raj Teotia (33), both from Karnal in Haryana.
Teotia had a gift RS 1 Lakh for his arrest in Haryana and was also sought after by the CBI in connection with the case of September 2021 related to Jee’s main paper hacking.
During interrogation, Teotia acknowledged that he and his colleagues remotely accessed papers that used software that dodged the supervision of security and proctorial and answering it for candidates who had paid the number ranging from Rs 5 Lakh and Rs 10 Lakh.
The test that they hacked included to enter the Indian Navy, the Indian Air Force and recruit as forest guards, Railways staff, among many others.
“In three years, the group helped 18 candidates clean up GMAT and around 500 candidates in another test.
It was Arshad, Salman and Shah which was mainly involved in attacking the agreement and then connected bait customers with other groups to complete the exam questions,” said Malhotra.
The police revealed that on December 26, the exam day, the men asked for a bait candidate to download the software called Ultraviewer and gained remote access to the bait laptop.
They connect the laptop to breakers, which avoid detection by proctor and test system.
The police also revealed that Teotia surprised friendship with a girl named Latalia in Goa and also traveled to Russia with him in 2018.
The source said that Latalia was introducing Teotia to Misha’s name and Vane.
The latter came to Delhi but told Teotia that the kind of knowledge of the software needed for hacking exams was only available with Misha, which was then called to India.
Together they arrange the process for the Teotia group.
Covid Lockdown forced Misha to extend his stay in Delhi last year and he left only after an international flight continued.