Meet CyberSecurity Expert Sunny Nehra the founder of Hacks and Security

Sunny Nehra

Sunny is among rare persons who hold topmost level certifications in multiple domains like Cyber Security, Ethical Hacking and Penetration testing, Digital Forensics, Networking and many others covering conceptual, practical or implementation knowledge as well as industrial and legal aspects at it's best in huge variety of these technical fields.

Sunny has been seen reporting critical loopholes not only in giant websites having bug reward programs but also in Indian government websites, private websites of institutions holding bulk sensitive data of users and even the TV News Channels! For instance, IAS Sanjeev Gupta (the former President & CEO of Digital India) mentioned about Sunny Nehra's work of reporting the sale of drugs on the hacked website of UP Vidhan Sabha and also about his work of reporting about a huge matrimonial website that leaked Aadhaar and other Personal information of users. In fact, Nehra is not just a pentester but also a leading analyst on DarkNet activities. He has highlighted several critical breaches and also factually corrected many breaches that were reported wrong on social media. Not just this he has an extra ordinary expertise when it comes to digital forensics and malware analysis. He keeps his followers aware about the latest malwares going in the wild and the steps they must take to avoid getting infected. He was among the initial persons to explain about Pegasus Spyware in-depth and about its different versions that evolved with time, even raised alert about disabling iMessage in Apple products as it had become the main attack vector to deploy the Pegasus spyware in 2020-2021. Several companies do mention his name on their Hall of Fame page for reporting vulnerabilities to them. Treebo Hotels chain website mentions him at the top in "contributors to their security" list. Divya Gandotra, one of the youngest entrepreneurs publicly acknowledged the cyber attack her organisation was facing and that it was Sunny Nehra who helped her out to protect the cyber attack that was back tracked to a notorious Bangladeshi hacker group.

Nehra also helps several law enforcement and intelligence agencies in technical assistance varying from tracking the criminals to depth analysis of seized tech gadgets to creating solutions to monitor the activities of targets.

Hacks and Security group provides free cyber awareness to common public as well as trains the tech enthusiasts for depth knowledge of networking, cyber security, trading skills and top-level ethical hacking. One of the main aim of Hacks and Security for which it is famous is removing the common misconceptions related to technological aspects and building very strong concepts regarding the same. The group Hacks and Security on Facebook has more than 2.6 lakhs members which shows how much persons are hopeful about getting answers about their technical problems or queries from the Hacks and Security group.

This august starting Anshul Saxena and Sunny found that some Pakistan hackers had breached into some of Indian news channels and were planning to live stream content on those on coming 14th august day (Pakistan's Independence day). Before the hackers could succeed in the plan Anshul openly tweeted about it to alert all news channels and the affected ones were fixed after reports to their responsible persons. Also last year august many important government websites of Pakistan were hacked into and defaced. The deface page had the logo of Hacks and Security group suggesting the group was behind that massive attack which is one of the biggest ever massive defacements against Pakistani govt websites. The web archives of the hack as an evidence are still accessible.

Nehra also has been very active on many forums since long. One can see him answering IT related questions on Quora to boost knowledge of readers. One would not find him anywhere on any social media platform or any forum losing any technical debate to someone. His debating strength can be acknowledged from the fact that he proved French Hacker Robert Baptiste wrong multiple times. Robert deleted his tweet on Aarogya Setu as well as on Digilocker after his claims were exposed by Nehra.