Nisarga Adhikary, the 19-year-old ethical hacker who highlighted vulnerabilities in a CBSE-linked OSM platform, has joined IIT Kanpur's C3iHub as an OSINT and Threat Intelligence Engineer, marking a major milestone in his cybersecurity career.

After gaining national attention through the discovery of security loopholes within a digital system connected to CBSE, the 19-year-old ethical hacker Nisarga Adhikary has made one important stride in his field of cybersecurity. This talented youth researcher has been hired at the C3iHub, which is the cybersecurity innovation centre at IIT Kanpur, as an OSINT and Threat Intelligence Engineer.

This opportunity was awarded to him after he became well-known for raising the alarm regarding certain security gaps in the On-Screen Marking (OSM) system of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

A teenager who sparked a national cybersecurity discussion

The first time Adhikary spoke publicly was in May 2026, when he exposed several vulnerabilities he had discovered within the CBSE OSM platform on X.