However, other methods are too slow to form a botnet, and time does not wait for anyone.

So, he decided to settle for the second best: look for ready-made resources online.

If you don’t have time to build a botnet yourself, then "rental" the botnet that others have infected.

At worst, you can make less money per business unit price, just use it as a proxy fee. As long as the volume can be run, the total amount will be considerable.

And there is another advantage of doing this, that is, your hands are not dirty.

He was searching for these messages on Saturday morning.

The heavy CRT monitor has strong radiation, and he has been surfing the Internet day and night for a week, which has already made his eyes full of blood.

"In the Cybersecurity Bulletin released in January, the NSA mentioned at least a zombie-like virus code-named ‘Glacier’, developed using the Delphi program."

"The 'glacial' virus based on Delphi is suspected to be derived from the writing of Chinese hackers? However, due to the small demand for distributed denial of service attacks in China, the 'glacial' has not spread on a large scale in China."

Finally, from the clues published online by the US National Security Bureau, Gu Cheng obtained the important information he needed:

First of all, there is already an original zombie program in this world that is also written based on Delphi, which is similar to the purpose of gray pigeons, but the infection spreads faster than the later gray pigeons.

Secondly, this virus has been around for at least 5 months, and a group of hackers have used these viruses to infect ordinary netizens' computers to build botnets.

Again, the motivation, or purpose of these hackers building botnets, is currently limited to "distributed denial of service attacks", commonly known as DDOS.

What the hell is a "distributed denial of service attack"? Ordinary people may not be familiar with it.

However, if you translate it in human terms, even a three-year-old child can understand it.

For example, at midnight on the Double Eleven Day Cat Shopping Festival, tens of millions of netizens will definitely clear their shopping carts.

At this time, Taobao generally cannot flash web pages because the traffic is too congested and the number of visits exceeds the server's design carrying limit.

If Taobao's competitor Jingdong wants to attack the evil spirit, he can secretly hire several hackers with a large number of botnets. Then he can calculate the moment just after Double Eleven, organize millions of infected and controlled zombies to visit Taobao at the same moment.

In this way, customers who normally buy things on Taobao will be squeezed out, unable to log in, unable to pay, which will disgusted the user's shopping experience and delayed the speed of Taobao's refreshing transaction volume records.

This is a distributed denial of service attack - using a botnet to squeeze server requests and squeeze real users who really need services out of the line.

When early hackers used botnets, they often played the role of killer who "takes money and eliminates disasters for others". Any Internet tycoon in the circle who wants to kill an opponent in business competition will hire hackers to revenge, squeeze out the opponent's website, and then give the hacker some commission.

However, this model also destined to be a disadvantage.

That is, early hackers did not need botnets at large scale, and they did not have the motivation to further infect botnets.

Especially in the underdeveloped environment of China in 2000.

In 2000, the server capacity of the largest portal website and search engine in China was just received by tens of thousands of people at the same time.

In other words, if you want to be a hacker who collects money to receive DDOS business in China, there are 50,000 broilers (broken chickens: computers that refer to infected zombie viruses in the circle) that are definitely enough.

50,000 broilers entered in the same instant, and whether they were Sina's Huhu or Huang Yi, they were all paralyzed.

No matter how many broilers are, they are useless.

Therefore, it is easy for China's botnet owners to be "safe and be at ease"; after expanding to tens of thousands of infections, there is no motivation to continue to expand at a high-profile basis.

This little broiler is enough to do DDOS. However, if you want to help the giants get their daily active IP, you will lose all your money and you won’t make much money at all.

To make a lot of money by buying daily active IP, you need at least ten times or even dozens of times the scale of botnets.

Perhaps some people may think: Why do you have to find such a large-scale botnet at one time? Isn’t it good to do a few more times and snowball slowly?

The answer is: No.

Because what Gu Cheng did was just an innovation in a business model, no technical barriers, and it was a gray area between the edge of the law.

Just like the "click-swipe" business that was overdotted half a year ago. As long as the first order is completed, it will definitely leak out in less than a month. Then hackers around the world will follow the trend when inspired.

At that time, those big hackers have their own botnets and no longer need to go through Gu Cheng, the "intermediary".

The law will not protect the "patent rights" of a "criminal method".

If Gu Cheng wants to make a lot of money, he must make decisive money from the first big order he receives after inventing this trick, and double his assets!

The lifespan of this business will definitely not exceed half a year! It is as short as its predecessors "scan the click".

...

"The glacier was born in China, but it has not been developed in China. Alas, where should I find a botnet of large enough scale?"

What Gu Cheng was most painful was that no one could discuss this matter with him.

As long as you discuss, your creativity is destined to be leaked.

He can only walk alone.

"If it were just for DDOS, botnets would definitely not have developed to the size of the future. What exactly caused the second wave of botnet development in human history?"

Gu Cheng felt that he had a little thought, but he was not very sure.

"Gugu~" He thought for too long at the computer desk and forgot the passage of time.

These days he woke up very early in the morning, his work and rest time was irregular, and he was already very hungry just by noon, but he didn't notice this.

"Forget it, take a break after dinner and check the information."

Gu Cheng stood up, stretched his waist, picked up a pack of instant noodles from the table, and was about to tear it apart from the rice cooker.

At this time, his cheap phone suddenly rang. He picked it up and saw that it was a call from the cherry.

It is difficult to tear the plastic bag with one hand, so he can only put down the ramen first.

"Sister Che?"

"A legendary thing... have you thought of a solution?" The voice on the other end of the phone flashed a little, as if you could imagine the expression of a cherry.

"Huh? What's the solution?" Gu Cheng was stunned by Cherry's mindless questioning, and then he realized:

Cherry must be afraid that he would think Park Young-kun’s offer was too expensive that day, so he escaped.

After figuring out the joints, Gu Cheng said naturally: "No, I've been busy for a week and I have no idea. The price quoted by Mr. Park is a bit unauthorized, but don't worry, I'm still interested in legends."

"Is that so? It's good to be interested." The cherry voice showed a little happiness, "I made you spend a meal last time. Are you free these two days? I'll ask you back."

Have a meal? No need to?

Gu Chengxin said that he still had something to do and was about to refuse.

However, the next second, a sudden light flashed in his mind.

Thanks to Cherry's call, he thought of the reason for the second wave of botnet explosion in history.

When the words came to my mouth, they became: "Okay, I'll have time today, where can I see you?"

Cherry: "Well, then see you at 1 pm at Lotte Mart at Myeongdong Station."

Gu Cheng hung up the phone, threw the ramen back to the table, then walked into the bathroom, looking in the mirror for the first time in a week.

Holding the grass! When will my brother become so haggard? No, I have to clean up.

He is not afraid that others will think he is not handsome, but he cannot tolerate others feeling miserable.
Chapter completed!