Wandering America: My kill threshold is far ahead

About two or three minutes later, the system notification popped up again.

Access to the work computer with code CSE0090 has been granted. Employee information is as follows.

A photo of a girl, along with basic identification information, then appeared on the screen.

Yuna Jefferson, age 21, Special Operations Trainee, Management Authority: Low

A 21-year-old female intern agent? She's quite pretty, actually.

But at this age, he probably hasn't even graduated from university yet, right?

However, from another perspective, the younger the age, the easier it is to establish faith; otherwise, a hero... no, a traitor, could cause irreparable and enormous losses.

Stealing Yuna's login account is tantamount to gaining an initial foothold.

The next step is to elevate the privileges.

After all, to the CIA, she was just a lowly servant; how could she possibly be qualified to touch the core?

[Reading disk information...]

[Supernova R2 type custom script is running...]

[Main control program installed, submodules loading...]

[Intrusion module loaded...]

Counter-surveillance module loaded...

[Self-destruct mechanism loaded...]

Please select the attack command...

【Deep Blue Ghost Singularity Detector】—Uses zero-day vulnerability detection as its primary attack method. It is highly stealthy, employs nested encryption technology, and redirects the real IP address to more than 20 countries, making the probability of being tracked infinitely close to zero. Estimated time: 120 minutes.

【Dense Celestial Pulse Cluster】—Remotely infects and controls zombie devices, sending massive amounts of data packets and verification requests, consuming the target server's computing resources and network bandwidth, causing it to be unable to process normal requests and thus paralyzed. Estimated time: 45 minutes.

【Void Queen Endless Swarm】—Implanted with a self-developed Void Portal program, continuously releasing swarm viruses to rapidly infect target programs and files. If intercepted, it can self-destruct and split, tricking the defense system into performing invalid operations. Estimated time: 80 minutes.

Well, at first glance they all seem pretty impressive, but upon closer analysis, problems can still be found.

The singularity probe operates in stealth mode, which is safe and risk-free, and will not directly confront the IAA's defense system. However, its drawback is also obvious: it takes too long.

In contrast, pulse clusters are much more aggressive, directly confronting you head-on, clearly telling you that they're going to take you down, and you can do whatever you want with them.

The endless swarm is a war of attrition, making you unable to defend yourself. As long as my swarm has enough numbers, I don't believe I can't wear you down.

From an objective standpoint, a singularity detector should be chosen, which is probably the choice of most top hackers. Regardless of success or failure, you have to ensure your own safety first.

But since this opportunity was so rare, Ma Jie wanted to save some time and go through the immigration bureau's back-end system, hoping to get himself a legal status.

This is equivalent to removing restrictions, allowing participation in a wide range of legal activities, and greatly expanding the scope for development.

Oh, and the IRS, the Federal Reserve Bank...

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! If only I could add a few zeros to the end of my bank account balance... just thinking about it makes my heart tremble.

Although he didn't know if doing this would expose his identity, Ma Jie would definitely not feel any psychological pressure.

That's all the Empress Dowager's money, what's wrong with me spending a little?

Screw it, I'll take it!

Activate the [Dense Celestial Pulse Cluster] and aim directly at that little eagle cub.

[Capturing data packets...]

[Generifying data bombs in batches...]

The first offensive has been launched...

Meanwhile, inside the IAA building, at the Cyber ​​Intelligence Center.

Programmer David hummed a tune contentedly as he enjoyed his afternoon tea at his workstation.

Suddenly, the alarm blared, and the six monitoring windows in front of me lit up with red lights. The wave-like graphs on the screen surged one after another, like the raging waves of the ocean.

Startled, he immediately put down his coffee cup and returned to work. His colleagues were on high alert, quickly putting on their headphones and executing relevant anti-hacking procedures.

"Machine 2 has detected a large number of abnormal traffic data packets, with a sudden surge in access, suspected to be a zombie network cluster attack!"

"Machine No. 3 is under a distributed denial-of-service attack. Service requests are nearing capacity, and the system is on the verge of collapse."

"The hardware sectors of machine number 9 have been extensively infected, and the adaptive Trojan removal program has failed to start."

Amidst a chorus of desperate reports, numerous computers began to crash, their screens filled with countless dialog boxes and unfamiliar email notifications.

Two minutes later, security supervisor Smith walked in, impeccably dressed in a suit, of pure Onsa lineage, with a pair of refined gold-rimmed glasses perched on his nose.

When everyone saw him come in, they all turned to look at him, finally finding their pillar of support.

Smith went straight to the workstation of programmer David, who was typing code at lightning speed, intercepting data packets.

"David, have you found the source of the intrusion?"

Faced with the security manager's question, David's expression was exaggerated to the extreme: "Boss, you may not believe it, but the opponent used the most traditional kill chain to carry out the intrusion, waking up a large number of zombie hosts. Now, at least half of the private devices in Los Angeles are sending us data requests, and the hardest hit area is actually LAPD."

"LAPD, the Los Angeles Police Department?" Upon hearing this keyword, Smith's expression turned serious: "Contact the police department's cybersecurity chief immediately and find out what's going on."

"Sigh, I'm afraid it's too late." David shook his head helplessly. "The fact that they've managed to do this means that our adversary has already obtained root privileges (super administrator). The most effective method at present is to forcibly cut off the power and physically isolate them."

"Boss, the LAPD chief is calling. Should we call him?"

"catch."

After a busy signal, a middle-aged man's urgent voice came through the communication station: "Manager Smith, what exactly is going on?"

"What's going on? I should be asking you that! Your police station's internal hardware servers were hijacked for over half an hour, and the cyber security department didn't react at all. Are they made of wood?"

"So what do we do now?"

"Instruct your subordinates to cut off the power to the server room and implement physical isolation."

"No." Upon hearing this request, another voice came from the other end: "Sir, this is the NSA (National Security Agency) cybersecurity coordinator stationed at LAPD. My backend shows that after gaining administrator privileges, the intruder planted a logic bomb, triggered by system startup."

"This means that once I shut down the computer, there is no way to restart the server, and once it is started, all the criminal files will be deleted."

"Fuck!" Smith clenched his fist in exasperation at the end. It seemed that this path was blocked. Defused the logic bomb was not something that could be done in a short time.

The only recourse was to turn to the programmer again: "David, based on your experience, who do you think did this?"

"It's obvious." David paused, took his hands off the keyboard, shook his head and smiled bitterly as he looked at the error pop-ups that kept popping up: "You could count the black hats in the world with this level of skill on one hand, but the possibility of launching such a large-scale attack by an individual is almost zero."

"So what's your conclusion?"

"Apart from those two countries, no one else has the guts."