An Indian company called CyberRoot Risk Advisory runs a surveillance-for-hire network. It maintains several accounts on social media to lure users globally for phishing and surveillance on behalf of its clients. The accounts maintained are fake and the persons holding such accounts declare diverse professions such as business executives, media persons and journalists.

In phishing, domains of major email providers are spoofed. There are video conferencing and file staring tools. Corporate email servers are targeted. The login credentials of the victims are stolen.

There is commercialisation of the surveillance industry in the last five years. Such industries do legitimate business too by selling tools to law enforcement and other responsible agencies.

These agencies forget users who are executives, doctors, lawyers, activists, journalists clergy.

BellTrox is another firm that is in the surveillance business.

Facebook recently took down the accounts related with CyberRoot.