Chapter 286 - Chapter 286: Chapter 204: Does a Web Novel Writer Dare to Confront This Colossal Beast? (2/2)

A relay server is a controlled server in a multi-server domain, subordinate to the main server.

In other words, it’s not the actual core server terminal.

The real control over the server lies in the main server.

Lin Chuan needed to verify once more whether the IP address obtained not long ago belonged to a relay server or the main server.

As a hacker, he had a habit when initiating attacks.

—Strike accurately!

That might be the lingering effect of being an assassin.

It also meant he would meticulously prepare for the strike, and it was the same now.

Once he struck, he would not give the opponent a chance to breathe!

The Morgan Group hackers used multiple hops to attack ‘International Forum-Underworld’, which wasn’t a difficult feat for Lin Chuan to trace back.

Very soon, in just seven or eight minutes, Lin Chuan tracked down their actual main server IP address.

“Let’s see if your main server has any firewall vulnerabilities,” Lin Chuan’s lips curled up, revealing a faint smile.

However, his smile had a touch of chilliness to it.

There are many ways to breach a server.

Such as ‘brute force password cracking’, ‘phishing’, ‘man-in-the-middle attacks’, ‘Trojan viruses’, ‘social engineering’, etc.

Lin Chuan used ‘man-in-the-middle attacks’ and ‘system vulnerability exploitation’.

To put it simply, it involved intercepting the attacker’s transmitted data, forging network certificates to sniff the target server’s network connection, and stealing information from the target server to identify systemic weaknesses.

Subsequently, he could then use these system vulnerabilities to write corresponding attack codes, execute remote commands, escalate privileges, and alter data.

Before long.

Lin Chuan, using a ‘man-in-the-middle attack’, obtained the target server’s information and analyzed the system vulnerability.

At that moment, Lin Chuan’s fingers danced swiftly on the keyboard, like a beautiful piano piece playing at his fingertips, resonating through the virtual online world.

On his screen, strings of codes targeting the server’s vulnerabilities emerged rapidly, forming a series of attack programs!

After ten minutes, the code was ready!

Retaliation!

…

INTERPOL, Asian Affairs Bureau.

It was late at night, but a detective in his mid-twenties, with a neatly cut face, was still at his post, investigating the case on his desk.

This detective was named Qin Yun, with a cropped haircut and a clean-cut visage.

He was originally part of INTERPOL’s domestic southern liaison agency, responsible for liaison work within the INTERPOL framework, coordinating foreign criminal cases in the southern region, collecting criminal intelligence, and organizing international police exchange cooperation tasks.

Recently.

He and several colleagues had been transferred to the Asian Affairs Bureau to investigate an international drug trafficking case involving ‘addictive drugs’ in Southeast Asia.