School to poker websites, this hacker spared none!

By Praveen Kumar | NT

Bengaluru, Nov.12:

Twenty-six-year-old Sri Krishna Ramesh, commonly known as ‘Sriki,’ is one of the most discussed names in political circles and among police officers. He is a close friend of the sons of many politicians of national and regional parties.
All his contacts have reportedly benefited from him, but through illegal ways. Sources say he travels in private jets, stays in expensive hotels with the bills footed by his wealthy contacts. His services are in 'high demand' as he allegedly secures illgotten money in safe and untraceable channels. Sriki is said to be the pioneer in the Bitcoin field in Karnataka and and primarily in the Silicon valley of the country Namma Bengaluru.
Sources say Sriki has aliases on the internet such as ’AP’, Rose and 'Big Boss.' He was born on 30th March, 1995 and is a software programmer and a resident of Jayanagar. His schooling was in Bengaluru and he is said to have picked up technical skills which allegedly turned out to be useful for cybercrime related activities.
When he was in 4th grade, he reportedly learnt the basics of web exploitation, Java, Reverse engineering and wrote his first Bot which means ‘Robot Player’ and ‘Back on Topic’ for a game called RuneScape, by a company in the United Kingdom known as JaGeX ltd. This was said to be his first attempt at reverse engineering obfuscated games and binary exploitation. He allegedly hacked into the main website of his school to change his and others' attendance and marks regularly. After his schooling, he went to Amsterdam i n 2 0 1 4 t o study computer science. After his return from Amsterdam, he allegedly hacked into Indian poker websites and an online gaming website . With the money he made, he reportedly purchased drugs from the darkweb using Bitcoins and would get the drugs delivered to the Foreign Post Office, Chamarajpet.
On November 4, last year, he allegedly received Hydro Ganja from his contacts at the Chamarajpet foreign post office and his contact was caught by the police when he went to collect it. This was the first case in which Sriki came to the notice of the police. The first police case in Bengaluru was registered by the KG Nagar police and the drugs case was later transferred to the Central Crime Branch (CCB)