Chapter 36: The Mysterious Master (Part 2)

  "Everyone continues to analyze the logs. Bing Chuan, come out with me for a moment." Hu Bing said to a middle-aged man in his thirties with a big beard.

  The middle-aged man who was called out by name immediately nodded and stood up from his seat, then followed him out. This middle-aged man may not be well-known to many people, but the ID "Ice River" is actually a top-notch white-hat hacker in the domestic security circle. It's estimated that no one would have expected Ice River to be hiding in the security department of such a jewelry company.

  It's already after work hours, the corridor is empty, and the two of them walked to the end of the corridor. Hu Bing looked around cautiously, making sure no one was there, before lowering his voice and asking in a hushed tone: "Bing Chuan, if I'm not mistaken, didn't you tell me last time that Vice President Lin is a master hacker?"

  Bing Chuan was taken aback for a moment before raising an eyebrow and asking, "Hei Bing, what do you mean? Did Vice President Lin do it?"

  "Who else is there? We've searched the entire server and can't find any signs of human intervention, it's as if the other party is a ghost. This way, there's only one possibility, that is, only those accounts with the highest permissions to log in to the server can do it, plus Vice President Lin is a master himself, it's not difficult to achieve this." Hu Bing nodded and shrugged his shoulders.

  Bing Chuan furrowed his brow, subconsciously reaching out to stroke his beard. After a long while, he nodded and said: "What you're saying makes sense. When the firewall alert was triggered, Wang Long and the others on duty at the time immediately entered the server. However, from that moment on, they didn't discover anyone else besides those two hackers. Even if it were an expert, it's unlikely they could erase all their traces in such a short amount of time."

  "Alright, now we can't find that mysterious mastermind, let's put it aside for the time being. First, thoroughly scan the server to see if there are any hidden vulnerabilities. The main priority is to protect the company's internal data. After this period of time, everything will be fine. You should also know that our company has a large-scale exhibition next week, and security cannot have any problems during this time!" Hu Bing said seriously.

  "Alright, okay, you're the head, what you say goes." Bing Chuan indicated that he understood.

  "Alright, you go ahead." Hu Bing patted Ice River's shoulder, and Ice River didn't say a word, simply nodding his head before turning around and heading back to the Security Department.

  Looking at the security department's sign, Hu Bing didn't know what he was thinking of, nodded thoughtfully, and then changed direction to leave the 7th floor.

  If it was just overtime, it would be quite boring, but Yang Yawei didn't find it boring. After Hu Bing handed over the task to Yang Yawei and left after work, he never came back, no one knows where he went, leaving only Yang Yawei in the office. The entire system has been in an open state all along, and with last night's intrusion, the security department should have strengthened the server's defense today. Even I have to work overtime, it can be seen that way. As long as those two hackers are not idiots, they shouldn't come again for a short time.

  Although it was only 7 o'clock, the outside was already brightly lit. Yang Yawei shook his head slightly and thought that since he had nothing to do at the moment, he might as well open his computer and take a look. The man being tracked by Mechanical Mouse was still wandering around the vicinity of that shopping mall. Yang Yawei didn't know what he was doing there; could it be that the person he planned to kill was nearby?

  He opened the holographic map to take a look, but there was nothing unusual. Yang Yiwei switched screens and prepared to open the web page to check the news. Recently, Japan has been jumping around non-stop, and it's unknown where the Diaoyu Islands will end up in the end. However, overall, things have improved compared to before.

  After flipping through several news articles on Tencent's military news page, there was no new information. Yang Wei was about to close the page and find a game to play when an urgent alarm prompt suddenly sounded.

  "Ah!" Yang Yawei shouted, sitting up straight, and subconsciously turned to the server beside him. However, he quickly realized that the alarm sound was not coming from the server, but from his own computer. He quickly opened the alert and scanned it, and Yang Yawei felt a bit annoyed. Trojan?! Damn, even Tencent's homepage can be hacked with a Trojan? What is Tencent doing?!

  The Trojan wanted to invade Yang Yawei's computer, but that was wishful thinking. So Yang Yawei didn't panic at all. Before he could even make a comment, the webpage in front of him directly became unable to connect. "Huh?" Yang Yawei was stunned for a moment, what's going on?

  Quickly re-entered QQ's homepage and tried again, but still couldn't connect. Could it be that the network connection here is broken? Took a look at the network connection in the bottom right corner, and it showed normal. If the network connection was interrupted, the biological modification device would automatically switch to wireless network connection. In theory, Yang Yawei's shoes shouldn't have been disconnected from the internet, but now Tencent's homepage just can't be opened.

  But soon, Yang Yiwei suddenly reacted, if it wasn't his own problem, then it was obviously Tencent's problem, in other words, someone had taken down Tencent's server?

  Damn! Nowadays hackers are getting more and more awesome, to be honest, Tencent's server must have been hacked before, but being directly taken down by a hacker, Yang Yawei has never seen or heard of it, maybe there was one, just didn't get out, at least once the server was hacked, Yang Yawei saw it on the Matrix Revolution Forum, but the homepage showed that the server hardware was being replaced and under scheduled maintenance, ordinary netizens who don't know the inside story can't tell these messages apart.

  Thinking of this, Yang Yawei directly closed the current page and opened the Matrix Revolution forum. As soon as he opened it, Yang Yawei was shocked. What's going on? The entire Matrix Revolution forum is filled with a large number of new posts, the first page is all the latest posts, and more than half of them are pinned by the administrator.

  Just looking at the title of this post, Yang Yawei felt a bit dizzy. Could it be? "...... Large-scale hacker invasion, currently unknown where the hackers come from, but Tencent and other servers have been hacked, NetEase and other major portal websites are being attacked, and some large companies' servers are also under attack, mainly massive DDOS attacks, latest situation is still updating..." This was the title of the latest post opened by Yang Yawei.

  "What the...?! What's going on here?! Is this a big move?! Was last night's Star Dream server attack just a prelude?! This is the real deal!" Yang Yiwei immediately started thinking, it was clear that the person updating the post was also one of the big shots. Yang Yiwei frantically refreshed the page with F5, but Mechanical Mouse was not by his side, and he couldn't track the network signal even if he wanted to. The biological modification device could prevent other hackers from invading, but it didn't have the ability to track signals.

  Very soon, a new post was refreshed by Yang Yawei: "... The opponent's hacker should have invaded these websites in advance and set up Trojan horses such as mail bombs. For the time being, no one has shown up, and several top hackers of Red Alliance have appeared on NetEase server." Red Alliance, also known as Hongke Alliance, is one of China's two major hacking organizations, along with China Black Hawk Alliance, which was closed for some reason later. The masters of Red Alliance all showed up, it seems not a small matter. Before Yang Yawei's thoughts fell down, a crazy alarm sounded again.