Chapter 431 - Another round of battles! (2/2)
”Yes!”
”Alright!”
”Received!”
”Received!”
They had been defeated that morning and had even lost an important person on their team, so of course JIN and the others would not take it lying down. They knew that hackers from around the world were now looking at their every move, so they definitely had to regain this loss of face. Looking at it, they had not actually failed. After all, they had already infiltrated and halted so many important websites for more than 10 to 30 minutes. It had caused a big disruption to the Chinese and would have been hailed as a success if not for their good friend, Ying's arrest. They had always looked down on the Chinese for their lack of technical skills. As Ying was already suspected of a previous crime, even if he were sent back to Korea, he would have been sentenced heavily and might not ever come out of jail again. This left JIN and the others feeling defeated and bitter, so they temporarily retreated to re-discuss their strategy to take it up with the Chinese again!
The strategy was as what was said!
JIN admitted that FAN was very capable at setting lures, attacks, vulnerability exploits, and defense. He could not match up to her in all these aspects, so what could they do? How would they approach this? There was only one way, and that was battling in a roundabout way. You might be very capable, but you can't split yourself up, right? We are not going to stay around our targets waiting for you. We would attack, leave, and move to a new target constantly. If you don't know where we we’re headed to, even if you chase up to our tracks, we'd be long gone already. As for those celebrity account pa.s.swords, you wouldn't know who we would be targeting either. We would steal, post, clean up, then leave. Unless you could predict where we are heading, you'd never be able to catch us!
This was a tactic that had no solution!
Attacking aimlessly, who could ever defend against that!
......
Yao Jiancai's account was hacked into. It kept posting apologetic texts to the Korean people.
Weiwo WebTV's website was attacked too. It resulted in all of the video resources becoming unplayable.
A certain Hope Primary School in the north had its network infected with a virus, which resulted in them losing all their educational and course information.
It was yet another chaotic round!
As it involved some celebrities this time, the effect was far worse than it had been that afternoon. Those who did not know what was happening even thought that the celebrities had some kind of brain cramp to be posting stuff like that! They were scolding themselves?
......
It was an emergency!
The Internet Surveillance Bureau was working overtime with more than half of the employees called back to the unit!
The National Malware Protection Center also issued a warning. There were already more than three types of viruses spread across China, but as they were viruses which had been detected before, some anti-virus software could prevent an infection, but for those without such software, they would be infected. Although the losses weren't huge, there were still a few hundred computers infected.
Somewhere in the Internet Surveillance Bureau.
Dong Zhiqiang slammed on his table, ”Start by controlling the spreading of the virus!”
Fan Yingyun, who was seated in front of her computer, said, ”There's no need to bother about the virus. It's just some old strain and already has fixes written for them. What we need to do now is to chase those grandsons out of our networks! We need to get to the root of the problem! They are the cause! If we don't drive them out, they will continue giving us problems!”
Fang Xiaoshui said exhaustingly, ”I've already restored five websites, but new sites that are being hacked keep coming up. I've already got too much on my hands!”
Meng Yi clenched his teeth, ”I'm checking on the person who is stealing accounts, but I have nothing on it at all. They disappear once they finish what they wanted to do. I can't find anything at all! How can we drive them out?”
Dong Zhiqiang said, ”Officer Fan, what do you suggest?”
Fan Yingyun leered at him and said, ”No one would know how to deal with this kind of attacks. They attack where ever they want, while we can only pa.s.sively defend. We won't get them even if we had a lifetime. By doing that, those Koreans will never lose. They've already got it all planned out, b.a.s.t.a.r.ds!”
If they knew which targets the attackers were going for, or at least had an idea of who they targeted, they might still have been able to set up traps or wait in ambush. Once they triggered the traps, it would be possible to track their IP addresses, but these people were not targeting any important sites. They were just waiting on the sidelines, planting trojan horses and viruses, as well as stealing accounts. Unless the Internet Surveillance Bureau cast their net all over the country to trap them, it wouldn't be possible to find them. Besides, there was not enough manpower to even do that!
”It's not like there's no way to solve this.” Fan Yingyun looked at Dong Zhiqiang, ”Old Dong, you need to authorize me to go and create trouble where they are. If their backyard catches fire, those grandsons would definitely go and put the fire out over there. Since they attacked us, we should attack them back. Just with what they have, they wouldn't be able to stop me.”
Fan Yingyun's words were not doubted by anyone in the office. They all knew how formidable she was and knew that her level was much higher than those hackers who infiltrated them today!
Dong Zhiqiang stared and said, ”We are the Internet Surveillance Bureau, we are cyber-police!”
Fan Yingyun laughed, ”A nervous rabbit might even bite, let alone the police? I don't have an issue with it since I've already made such mistakes before.”
Dong Zhiqiang waved her off and said, ”Definitely not possible. Don't cause trouble like that again, Officer Fan. Let's just deal with this mess for now. These hackers have already done this for a day now, so they can't possibly drag this out for too long. They will get tired and give up on doing this, unless these people really have nothing better to do.”
Fan Yingyun said, ”So we are just going to take it until they decide that there is no meaning to it anymore and leave?”
”Yes.” Dong Zhiqiang said.
Fan Yingyun looked at him, ”Even a rabbit is better than you!”
Rabbit?
I'm your leader!
Dong Zhiqiang was almost infuriated. He said, ”Officer Fan, you might be more experienced than me and have been in the police system longer than me, so you should know the rules better than me. Even if you scold me, it is useless. We are the Internet Surveillance Bureau and we have to focus on our responsibilities and mission!” Having said that, he looked at everyone of his colleagues, ”I know that everyone is feeling p.i.s.sed. I also know that in our jobs, we might sometimes be cowardly, but for some things, the hackers can do anything they want while we cannot do so. That is because they are outlaws, and we are the police!” Up until here, Old Dong explained with a face of righteousness.
Fang Xiaoshui and a few others nodded.
Fan Yingyun interrupted and said, ”Come on, Old Dong. Even if you say that bulls.h.i.+t, it’s useless.” Her hand, which was typing furiously onto the keyboard, suddenly stopped and she looked at her screen. With her other hand, she wrote down a string of characters onto her notebook and tore out the page. She turned around and said, ”Got 1.”
Ah?
Caught someone?
Weren't you chatting? You can still chat and work at the same time?
Dong Zhiqiang spirit was jolted, ”Is it the leader?”
”You're thinking too much.” Fan Yingyun said, ”It's just a henchman. His skills are even worse than yours. Without knowing his own skill, he wanted to join in on the fun. Too bad for him to have b.u.mped into me.”
Dong Zhiqiang thought to himself that if she wanted to talk about that hacker, then leave it at that, but why did she have to drag him in as well. Whose skills were poor now? My specialization was in network forensics, not network technology! Did you think that everyone is as crazy as you to know everything! Then, he took the piece of paper from her and had a look before getting one of his men to pa.s.s the information to management. The arrest would be handled by someone at the top and they would coordinate the investigations as well. As this IP was from a foreign country, they needed to follow proper procedure to coordinate the arrest. All of this was outside of the scope for those from the First Department.
The battle continued on for the Internet Surveillance Bureau staff and the Korean hackers!
You couldn't see any smoke, but they were really crossing swords!
From the beginning, these Korean hackers had really taken the Chinese side by surprise. They had a major advantage over the Internet Surveillance Bureau, but as time went on, more and more people arrived back at the Internet Surveillance Bureau and were working at almost full capacity. Together with the support from some people from the National Malware Protection Center, as well as experts from several network security companies, they were finally able to control the situation and was no longer in an overly pa.s.sive situation!
The only issue was that with the increase in manpower for the Chinese, the Korean hackers were also increasing in number. There were many hackers who had started off just watching, but decided to join in the battle after some time!
It was turning into a battle royale!
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