Chapter 169: Kidnapping a City

Wang Zhizheng was looking at a book, which was the Chinese character programming language tutorial released by the Army Ant Company. The last time hackers hacked into their system and took the virus software, they haven't heard from them.

The Internet is a very complex world. The other party uses IPs from all over the world to hack into their computers, and it is even more difficult to find out who did it.

Several times of global virus crisis, the senior hackers who planned it have not been found. If they are a small police station, trying to find it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack. Even if they knew the person, they would not be able to take action. At most, it would be handed over to Interpol to handle the matter.

Fortunately, the loss last time was not large, so it was just an announcement. These people wrote a review report, and the matter was turned over.

After this incident, let him pay more attention to the learning of Chinese programming language.

The other party is a senior hacker, trying to infiltrate their computer by all means, just for the virus program, it is definitely not that simple.

"Wang Zhi, look at this news." A female colleague next to him said: "There is a hacker group calling itself 'The Clown' who has issued a warning on Twitter abroad that this Friday, there will be an unprecedented global campaign. Intranet terrorist attacks, let the world remember Black Friday in this online world. Their logo avatar is the mask that invaded our computer last time."

Hearing this, Wang Zhi was shocked, and immediately stretched his head to look at her computer screen.

Sure enough, I saw a piece of news with a video on it. His English is not bad, and all the text on Twitter can be understood.

"What do they want to do?"

Wang Zhi frowned, and stretched his head to watch the video carefully, but he didn't notice it at all. The female colleague next to his face was blushing and looked at him with a shy look.

"I don't know. They won't release the virus file they took from us, right? The contagiousness of that virus is terrifying."

"Impossible, that virus, we have released the anti-virus program, they released the anti-virus software at the first time, they are doing useless work. Hackers are one of the smartest groups in the world, such a simple thing, they Impossible not to have thought of it.”

"Wang Zhi, are you free tonight?"

"Forehead???"

The "Clown Organization" issued a warning, which has attracted a lot of media attention and reports.

This sudden hacking group,

Never heard this name before. Now dare to blatantly warn the world, many people are just taking it as a joke.

After all, cyber terrorist attacks on a global scale have never happened before. There has never been any hacker organization that dared to issue such a warning.

Time ticks by, and the Joker Group releases news every day, as if counting down. At first, people paid attention, but later they were ignored as a kind of prank.

Friday in the West arrived smoothly.

On Twitter, the Joker Organization updated Twitter again.

"My heart is like this face, half white, 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. First of all, I pay tribute to Master Chaplin."

The half-sentence of Chaplin's famous words made the media concerned about this news inexplicable.

London, England.

The University of London is a world-renowned institution of higher learning.

Alice is in the dormitory, sorting out research papers. She is conducting an economic study on the future Internet economy. As a Ph.D. student in the business school, this dissertation will become her doctoral dissertation.

In the United Kingdom, it is difficult to study the Internet economy, and she feels that it is necessary to go to China next. China's Internet economy is already a well-deserved world leader.

Just after saving the data, she suddenly felt the computer screen flicker.

A mask appeared on her computer screen.

Half pure white, half shadow, with scarlet pupils, it looks especially weird behind the mask. The evil smile is printed on the mask, more like a mockery of the world.

After seeing the picture, Alice's pupils shrank, and she hurriedly clicked the mouse a few times, but there was no response.

"What's the matter?" Alice became anxious and tried to restart. The screen 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.

Inside the London Police Station, many police officers stared at the computer screen that turned into a clown picture, falling into a strange silence.

This scene appears in banks, hospitals, stock exchanges, subways, supermarkets, companies and other corners. In just one hour, half of London, all service places, were occupied by this black and white mask.

For a time, half of London was paralyzed.

The news spread quickly, and the whole world was in an uproar.

In less than an hour, the virus infected half of London, and no one counts how many computers there are. Statistics are meaningless, and economic losses are what everyone pays attention to.

Panic began to spread.

Unprecedented, in the history of computer development, there has never been such a large-scale virus attack, which paralyzed almost the entire city.

"London Has Fallen! "—The Times

The era of cyber terror is coming! "—The Wall Street Journal

"The Disgusting Clown! 》——Europe Daily

"The Internet Is Completely Absent - A Warning From Army Ants" - Global Times

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The Internet in London was infected for an hour, and all kinds of explosive news appeared. The 'Clown Organization' has entered people's field of vision again.

I thought it was just a prank, but unexpectedly, an unprecedented cyber terrorist attack really came. The first location the hackers chose was London, England. At this moment, everyone knew the intention of paying tribute to Chaplin, this is Chaplin's hometown.

London fell, causing global panic. The stock market also fluctuated. A financial center so easily hacked.

The previous attack of Eternal Blue and Eternal Heart was nothing compared to this "Clown Crisis".

Not long after the Internet was paralyzed in London, the British female prime minister at No. 10 Downing Street delivered a televised speech, calling on domestic Internet experts to go to the University of London to jointly deal with this Internet crisis.

Other countries have issued emergency orders to strengthen network protection.

This is a huge lesson, London is shut down for an hour and no one knows how much the economy will lose. In this information-based world, it is the first time that a financial center city has been shut down. The securities and financial markets have announced that they will stop trading. The specific reply date is unknown.

In an hour, the whole world was shocked by this cyber terrorist attack.

And in the second hour after the news came out, the Joker organization posted the news again on Twitter: "The London incident was initiated by us, we will take full responsibility, and the city has been successfully kidnapped, with a ransom of 100 million pounds, within three days. , settled in Bitcoin.”

When the news came out, the world was shocked.

Affected, the price of Bitcoin has soared, and it has doubled in just one hour.

A cyber hacking group openly threatens a country, which has never happened in the past history, and this is the first time that a hacker group threatens a country.