In a narrow lane of Hyderabad’s Hafiz Baba Nagar, a modest home hummed with sounds that betrayed nothing unusual — a pressure cooker’s whistle, a child’s laughter, the clatter of steel plates. But above the everyday chaos, a small device tucked quietly on a kitchen shelf blinked in coded rhythm.
It wasn’t a Wi-Fi router, though it looked like one. Inside its sleek, rectangular shell, hundreds of calls were being routed from Cambodia to unsuspecting victims across India. In this unremarkable two-storey house in south Hyderabad, a global cybercrime syndicate had found an unlikely headquarters.
