Chapter 169: Kidnapping a city
Wang Zhi was watching with a book, which was a Chinese character programming language tutorial released by the Army Ant Company. The last time a hacker hacked into their system and took away the virus software, there was no news.
The Internet is a very complex world. It is extremely difficult for the other party to invade their computers using IPs from all over the world.
Several times the global virus crisis was in danger, but no senior hackers were found. They were a small police station, and finding them was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Even if they knew about people, they would not be able to take action. At most, they would leave it to the Interpol to handle this matter.
Fortunately, the loss last time was not big, so they just issued an announcement and wrote a review report, which turned out to be the matter.
After this incident, he paid more attention to the learning of Chinese character programming languages.
A senior hacker on the other side tried every means to hack their computers, just for the virus program, which was definitely not that simple.
"Wang Zhi, look at this news." A female colleague next to him said: "There is a hacker organization that calls herself a 'clown' who issued a warning on Twitter abroad that this Friday will be an unprecedented global cyber terrorist attack, so that the world can remember the Black Friday of this online world. Their logo avatar is the mask that last invaded our computer."
Hearing this, Wang Zhi was shocked and immediately stretched out his head to look at her computer screen.
Sure enough, I saw a news with a video on it. His English is pretty good, and I can understand all the texts on Twitter.
"What do they want to do?"
Wang Zhi frowned, stretched his head and watched the video carefully, without notice at all. The female colleague beside his face turned slightly red, and he looked at him with a hint of shyness.
"I don't know, they won't release the virus file taken from us, right? The infectiousness of that virus is very terrible."
"Impossible, that virus, we have released antivirus programs, and they released it, and there was antivirus software at the first time. They are doing useless work. Hackers are one of the smartest groups in the world. It is impossible for them to not have such a simple thing."
"Wang Zhi, are you free tonight?"
"Forehead???"
The "Joker Organization" issued a warning, which has attracted a lot of media attention and reported it.
This hacker organization that suddenly emerged had never heard of this name before. Now, many people dare to blatantly warn the whole world just regard it as a joke.
After all, there has never been any cyber terrorist attacks around the world. No hacker organization dares to issue such a warning.
Time is slowly passing, and the clown organization publishes news every day, as if counting down. At first, there are people paying attention, but later they are ignored as a prank.
Friday in the West has arrived smoothly.
On Twitter, the Joker organization updated Twitter again.
"My heart is like this face, half pure white and half shadow. I can choose to let you see it, or I can insist on not letting you see it. This circus performance is about to open, and I will pay tribute to Master Chaplin first."
Chaplin's half a famous saying made the media that followed this news inexplicable.
London, England.
University of London is a world-renowned institution of higher learning.
Alice is organizing a research paper in her dormitory. She is conducting an economic research on the future Internet economy. As a doctoral student in the business school, this paper will become her doctoral thesis.
It is difficult to study the Internet economy in the UK, and she feels it is necessary to go to China next. China's Internet economy is already a well-deserved world leader.
Just as the data was saved, she suddenly felt the computer screen flash.
A mask appeared on her computer screen.
Half pure white, half shadow, scarlet eyes, look particularly weird behind the mask. The evil smile imprinted on the mask, which is more like a mockery of the world.
After seeing the picture, Alice's pupils shrank, and she hurriedly tapped with the mouse a few times, but there was no response.
"What's going on?" Alice was anxious and tried to restart. The picture displayed was still a face of a clown mask.
The computers on the entire campus instantly turned into a half-black and half-white mask.
In the London Police Station, many police officers stared at the computer screen that turned into a clown and fell into a strange silence.
This scene appeared in banks, hospitals, securities trading markets, subways, supermarkets, companies and other corners. In just one hour, half of London, all service venues were occupied by this black and white mask.
For a moment, half of London fell into paralysis.
The news soon spread and the whole world was in an uproar.
In less than an hour, the virus infected half of the city of London. As for how many computers, no one counted it. It was meaningless to count it, and economic losses were the concerns of everyone.
The panic began to spread.
Unprecedentedly, in the history of computer development, such a large-scale virus attack has never occurred, causing almost the entire city to be paralyzed.
"London Falls!" - The Times
"The Age of Cyber Terror is Coming!" - Wall Street Journal
"The Annoying Clown!" - European Daily
"The Internet No longer exists - Warning from the marching ants" - Global Times
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The London Internet was infected for an hour, and various explosive news appeared. The "Joker's Organization" once again entered people's vision.
I thought it was just a prank, but unexpectedly, an unprecedented online terrorist attack really came. The first place chosen by the hackers was London, England. At this moment, everyone knew the intention of paying tribute to Chaplin, which is Chaplin's hometown.
The fall of London caused global panic. The stock market also fluctuated. A financial center could easily be hacked.
The previous attack of Eternal Blue and Eternal Heart is simply a slight witch compared to this "Joker Crisis".
Not long after the network in London was paralyzed, the British female prime minister at 10 Downing Street delivered a televised speech, calling on domestic Internet experts to go to the University of London to jointly respond to the cyber crisis.
Other countries have issued emergency orders to strengthen network protection.
This is a huge lesson. London has been shut down for an hour, and no one knows how much the economy will lose. In this information-based world, the first time that financial center cities have been shut down, securities and financial markets have announced that trading will be stopped, and the specific reply date is unknown.
In one hour, the whole world was shocked by this cyber terrorist attack.
The second hour after the news came out, the Joker Group posted another message on Twitter: "We initiated the London incident and we will bear all responsibility. We have successfully kidnapped the city, with a ransom of 100 million pounds, and will be settled in Bitcoin within three days."
As soon as the news came out, the world was shocked.
Affected, the price of Bitcoin soared, and it has doubled in just one hour.
Chapter completed!