There have been many hacker groups in India since 2k. Some are noted for their notorious behavior.
1. Indian Snakes. Indian snakes was a closed underground community of hackers who were on the top of the scene in the early 2000s. They are also noted for the YAHA worm that they had written.
1. Indian Snakes. Indian snakes was a closed underground community of hackers who were on the top of the scene in the early 2000s. They are also noted for the YAHA worm that they had written.
2. hacking-truths.net (2005-2008) stopped because of personal problems. Restarted in 2010. Activities malware dev/hacking.
3. h4cky0u. It started around 2003 Website: h4cky0u.org. The activities included defacing, exploit dev, botnets etc. It died in 2006 due to some personal differences between the staff. It was reopened as h4ck-y0u, sadly h4ck-y0u also stopped after one year of its existence due to cyber crime activities, financial issues. H4cky0u was started again by an American who went by the handle "Big Boss" and we haven't heard much about it after that.
4. n|u (null security community). It started in 2008 and has spread to 6 cities in India namely Bangalore, Pune, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bhopal. Their activities include vulnerability research, exploit dev, projects, disclosures, nullcon hacker conference. It is more of an OWASP style community sans the limitation of only web app security research. It is also registered with the Govt. Of India as a non-profit organization.
5. Andhra hackers. Started in late 2000s. It is a forum like portal. Activities include sharing security information.
6. ICW (Indian Cyber warriors) is an off-shoot of Andhrahackers and started around 2008. This is a hactivist group with activities including defacing Pakistani websites.
7. Securitytube.net. It is not a group per se. It is a portal that has lots of security videos, question/answer section much like stackoverflow. It was started somewhere around 2008 or 2009.
8. Indishell. It started in 2009. The main guys behind indishell are Lucky, mr. 52, jackh4xor, silentp0sion. It is again a hacktivist group and majorly into defacing pakistani websites. It was recently stopped due to some unknown issues and has re-emerged at the time of writing this article. Activities include defacing websites.
9. ICA (Indian Cyber army) is an off-shoot of Indishell with mostly the same staff as Indishell. It is also a defacer group. Noted for defacing sites including Pakistani ISP national telecommunication corporation pakistan
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