Cybersecurity Researcher Nisarga Adhikary has been appointed as the OSINT and Threat Intelligence Engineer at C3iHub, the cyber defence research centre at IIT Kanpur.
The youngster recently came into spotlight after he identified major security vulnerabilities in the Online Submission of Marks (OSM) portal of the Central Board of Secondary Education.
Alleged flaws in the CBSE portal, the 19-year-old earlier said that it took him just 20 minutes to identify vulnerabilities. This raised major questions over the CBSE’s digital infrastructure after Adhikary alleged that answer sheets and question papers stored on an AWS bucket were publicly accessible online.
Adhikary’s appointment certainly marks a significant milestone in his professional career and highlights the growing recognition of ethical hacking and responsible vulnerability disclosure in the country.
The OSM portal is used by CBSE-affiliated schools to upload and manage students’ examination marks. It plays an important role in the board examination process and allows schools to submit marks online for compilation and preparation of result.
Adhikary earlier stated that he discovered multiple security weaknesses in the portal, potentially exposing sensitive student and school-related information if it gets exploited by scammers.