Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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But 7480 spoke fearfully: “Master, what do you want to do?”
“It’s very simple, destroy Zhu Jianrui.” Zhuang Li turned on the computer, invaded MIK’s network, and saw a new security system. Judging from the defense level, its technical level was ahead of the world, and it was obviously Zhu Jianrui’s handiwork. Having personally broken into MIK’s network, he didn’t want the same thing to happen to him.
“Are you going to hack the MIK network? This is illegal!” 7480 tried to dissuade.
“Killing is also illegal!” Zhuang Li smiled nonchalantly.
7480 had nothing more to say.
It originally thought that the host would destroy MIK’s network with his own hands, but it didn’t expect that he only wandered around in it, deleted some innocuous things, came out, and then quietly invaded a network formed by hackers from all over the world. On the internal dark web, he borrowed the account of an American hacker who had not appeared for a long time and posted a post on the forum, focusing on how advanced and how difficult it was to break through MIK’s defense system.
As they all knew, for hackers, breaking into a website with a maximum defense level was an exciting game for them.
Many hackers were attracted by this post and followed the link to enter the MIK network.
“It’s useless. Zhu Jianrui’s hacking skills are the best in the world.” 7480 was silent and added: “No one can break through the defense system he built except you.”
Sure enough, those hackers who claimed to be highly skilled came back in vain. After returning to the forum, they left messages at the bottom of the post, confirming the poster’s description.
So more hackers came to attack MIK’s network.
By this time, the war had been provoked, but Zhu Jianrui relied on his superb technology to completely crush the attacks of these hackers. The network he built seemed indeed indestructible.
Hackers were becoming increasingly unconvinced and were gathering friends to attack together.
7480 kept shaking his head, his attitude becoming more and more relaxed: “It’s useless, they are no match for Zhu Jianrui.”
It was only then that Zhuang Li posted a new post.
With his previous post, his popularity in the dark web had reached its peak. As soon as he spoke, hackers from all over the world flocked to him and listened carefully. This time, he no longer praised how powerful MIK’s network was, but instead pointed out two fatal vulnerabilities in the network – “Meltdown” and “Ghost”.
Through the “meltdown” vulnerability, low-privileged users could also access the system’s memory out of bounds and download local data.
The Specter vulnerability allowed an attacker to use a malicious application to obtain user-level private data that should be quarantined.
In other words, as long as these two loopholes were found correctly, the MIK network that no one could break before would become a sieve.
After finishing his haircut, Zhuang Li picked up his coffee cup and sat in the afternoon sunshine, enjoying the comfort and tranquility of this moment.
But there was an ultimate carnival on the Internet. In order to verify whether these two vulnerabilities really existed, countless hackers poured into MIK, and were surprised to find that they succeeded!
At the same time, Zhu Jianrui, who was sitting in front of the computer and laughing at the hackers’ defeat, showed a shocked expression. His computer had a black screen, and it won’t start no matter what keys he pressed, and even forced shutdown won’t work.
Immediately afterwards, his secretary rushed in and said quickly: “Mr. Zhu is not in good condition. All the computers in the company have black screens!”
“Please tell everyone to calm down and not panic. I will solve this problem right away.” Zhu Jianrui took out his laptop, connected to the intranet, and started to fight back.
But it was no use. These hackers had already poured into MIK’s management backend and logged off personal computers and servers.
Within a few seconds of Zhu Jianrui opening his laptop, MIK had more than 1,000 personal computers and 500 servers logged off, and all backups were cleared.
Zhu Jianrui wanted to recover the data but found that the boot sector had also been deleted, and all internal data had been stolen and shredded. In other words, there was no way to restore MIK’s system, and the lost files would never be recovered.
A lot of cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Without thinking, he took out another mobile phone from the secret compartment of the drawer and sent a message: “Come help!”
As the most powerful hacker in China, he naturally had a large group of hackers gathered around him, and he was their leader, with the authority to respond to everything.
These people quickly joined the battle and tried their best to help Zhu Jianrui rebuild MIK’s defense network.
Zhuang Li, sitting in the afternoon sunshine, watched this scene leisurely and comfortably through his laptop. He had already expected that Zhu Jianrui would not be alone, but what surprised him was that the broker named mima was also a hacker and completely obeyed Zhu Jianrui’s orders.
This was where things got interesting.
Mima had secretly helped the Gong family with a lot of things. If he was Zhu Jianrui’s subordinate, it could be seen that Zhu Jianrui knew his life experience a long time ago and secretly influenced the Gong family’s development path. How old was he then?
“Zhu Jianrui is becoming more and more interesting.” Zhuang Li sighed casually facing the dense forest outside the window.
7480 secretly encouraged Zhu Jianrui: Come on, protagonist! You can do it, you are so awesome, you can definitely do it! Hold on!
Fortunately, Zhu Jianrui’s team held on. They rewrote a set of defense procedures at breakneck speed, covering up previous vulnerabilities. MIK’s network was impeccable again.
At this moment, Zhuang Li posted another post as an American hacker, pointing out several loopholes in the newly written defense program.
This kind of vulnerability was called a “zero-day vulnerability” in the industry, also known as a zero-day attack. It referred to a security vulnerability that was maliciously exploited immediately after being discovered. They were not known to the general public and therefore were vulnerable to hackers. The company being attacked didn’t even know how to defend itself against a counterattack.
The network was composed of tens or even hundreds of millions of programs, and it was impossible for every program to be perfectly connected. When running, they would always produce calculation errors of one kind or another. This was what the public called loopholes.
In fact, the more programs there were, the more vulnerabilities there were. Zhu Jianrui’s team prided itself on its superb technology, and the newly built defense system actually consisted of tens of millions of programs.
In the eyes of other hackers, it was impregnable.
But in Zhuang Li’s eyes, it was a big net, with loopholes and loopholes.
The zero-day attack began, another crazy plunder. MIK’s new network collapsed shortly after it was built. This time, Zhu Jianrui, who was surrounded by dozens of the best hackers and could not make a comeback, finally smashed the computer in frustration.
He roared like a madman, grabbed his hair, and finally fell to his knees helplessly.
He knew that the MIK he had just acquired was finished! Because its database not only saved the private files and shady scandals of all stars, but also saved the finished films of all the movies and TV series that MIK had invested in and produced in the recent past.
If hackers spread scandals about those celebrities to the Internet, MIK would be notorious.
If hackers made those movies and TV series into seeds for free download, the billions MIK invested would be lost.
Zhu Jianrui faced bankruptcy as soon as he bought the company. Counting the time since he took possession of this skyscraper, it was less than a day.
Outside the window, a bloody sunset slowly set, just as the glorious life of this talented young man had ended before it even began.
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