Chapter 923: Boss Arrested! The Hacker World Shook! (1/4)
Chapter 923: Boss Arrested! The hacker world shook! (14)
Today is definitely an extraordinary day for hackers active on the dark web.
With "the Lunar Hadron Collider Symposium being held in Shanghai" and "five billion US dollars" as the fuse, the well-known North American hacker organization "Predatory Eagle" declared war on the Huaguo Internet.
In less than 12 hours, more than 50 website servers were paralyzed or domain names were hijacked, and more than 20 companies reported losses exceeding US$500,000.
Seeing that the flames of war were further expanding, just when everyone was ready to watch the show and eat melons, this war without gunpowder came to an abrupt end.
Yes, that was the end of it.
Not only that, several well-known IDs who were active in the hacker circle have disappeared, and it is not known whether they have fled or retired. In short, they disappeared from the dark web as if they had evaporated from the world.
Especially the BOSS.
Even excluding the Predatory Eagle organization, he is still one of the most skilled hackers in the hacker circle. The FBI has been looking for him for so many years and can't find his whereabouts, which is enough to show how powerful he is.
However, now this person seems to have been erased from the Internet. Not only did the trading posts on the black market have no response, the personal technology blog also stopped updating, and the personal forum was directly "not-found".
It's almost like a supernatural event happened...
A well-known Internet technology exchange forum in a darknet circle.
Many scholars engaged in information security technology, white hats serving well-known Internet companies, or black hats who have not yet washed their hands, all have their own vests on the forum, and exchange some industry news or discuss technologies from time to time.
Because the Predatory Eagle declared war on Huaguo Internet this time, it was a big deal, and almost half of the people on the forum were discussing it, so the moderator simply created a separate forum for the topic...
[Does anyone know what happened? 】
【One hour has passed, have those "little birds" given up? 】
[No way, it seems that an hour ago, I saw that Huaguo's defense was still very passive. They were basically trying to fight the fire. They had no reason to guard against such a big advantage and not take advantage of the victory to pursue it. Instead, they retreated. 】
[Which boss has the email address of BOSS? Why don't you ask that big guy what he's doing now? The fight has already started, so we can't just let it go. 】
[It is said that he was arrested. 】
After the news came out, there was silence in the post for a while.
After more than ten minutes, a reply broke the silence.
【impossible? 】
[Yeah, he's the BOSS! I've seen him make the ATM on 14th Street in Long Island, New York spit out money like crazy. The FBI has been looking for him for so many years and they haven't found anyone else. He was caught for no reason, right? 】
[That's right. 】
Almost no one believed that this veteran of the hacker circle, who had been in the hacker circle for many years, was defeated in the battlefield of the Western Pacific just like that.
In the eyes of most people in the circle, even if the "little birds" of the predatory eagle fail to show their feet, they will at most be dormant for a while, and will surface again when the limelight passes.
It is too difficult to locate a skilled and experienced hacker in the three-dimensional world.
Especially for a boss like BOSS, as long as he doesn't want to be caught, it is almost impossible to be caught.
Just when everyone was discussing what the members of Predator Eagle were planning to do, a piece of news published in an unknown evening newspaper in Los Angeles not only slapped everyone in the face, but also made everyone Those who followed the latest developments of the incident almost dropped their jaws to the ground...
"Everybody Gets All the Stolen!" The leader of the well-known criminal organization "Predatory Eagle" BOSS was arrested! "
As soon as the news came out...
The entire hacker circle is boiling! ! !
...
Since receiving that email in the middle of the night, the focus of the 2.17 Major Cybercrime Crime Squad has changed from strengthening defenses to investigating the IPs revealed by the email.
Although there are many doubts about the source of the email, it seems to be the only clue they have now.
Especially after seeing the ID of Dr. Z, Director Li seemed to understand something, and assured Director Hong that if he followed the clues provided by this email, he would definitely find something useful.
Although he didn't quite believe the layman's opinion from the Bureau of Science and Technology, but after all, more than one level of official can overwhelm people, Director Hong still paid enough attention to it, and followed what Director Li said.
Investigating overseas IP is not an easy task, especially if there is not enough evidence, the police in the country where the party is located may not cooperate with the police. However, when they find that an IP is actually located in the country, all problems seem to be solved.
Director Hong immediately called and reported the news to the Ministry of Public Security, through which he contacted the local police station. After 20 minutes of investigation and roundup, the hacker with the ID "Child" was located and captured on the spot.
It exceeded everyone's expectations.
Completely different from the ID name, the hacker who was captured didn't match the word "child" no matter what, and he obviously looked like a middle-aged uncle in his thirties.
According to the neighbors who were woken up by the noise to watch the excitement, the criminal suspect has been out of work for many years, and his family background is not too rich, but it seems that he is not short of money in his daily life.
In the "child's" home, the police easily found the electronic equipment used to commit the crime, as well as his own laptop and mobile phone.
Through the investigation of his social account, the police found that the person involved not only likes to make some anti-social remarks, but also has extreme hatred towards the country and organizations.
According to his confession, he was brought into a hacker organization called "Predator Eagle" by BOSS last year, and provided the organization with a lot of "broilers" located in the territory, which were used as springboards for cyber attacks.
As for the motive of committing the crime, there is no need to ask at all. Naturally, it is to vent dissatisfaction with the society...
...
It's four o'clock in the middle of the night, and the sky is already dawning.
Director Hong, who was drinking coffee, looked at Director Li and asked, "Do you know that Dr. Z?"
After blowing on the heat on the thermos, Director Li, who stayed up late and became more energetic, said with a smile, "I'm not afraid of making fun of you if I say it. Actually, I'm not sure whether I know him or not."
Not sure if you recognize it or not?
"Then how can you be sure that he must be right..." Suddenly realizing something, Director Hong coughed, "Of course, it turns out that he is indeed right. I have no intention of inquiring about him because of the protection of whistleblowers. I'm just a little curious about my identity, and I don't know if you are inconvenient to answer my confusion."
Director Li: "Actually, there is no special reason. The reason why I trust him is because he has helped us."
Director Hong frowned inexplicably and asked, "Have you helped us?"
"That happened about half a year ago," Director Li continued with a nostalgic voice, holding a thermos in his hand, with a flash of memories of the past in his eyes, "Just half a year ago, the Ares Project After stabbing the big basket, out of humanitarian principles, we launched a spaceship to Mars..."
The voice of the old man telling stories sounded in the office.
From Rescue Mars to the invasion of Martian bacteria, the more Director Li talked, the more excited he became. He even put down the thermos in his hand, and gestured with his hands expressively.
It wasn't until the sound of snoring sounded in the office that he stopped talking in embarrassment, and stopped talking...