The laptop was beeping because it had an alert system set up. This system was connected to a botnet used to monitor emails sent by a hacker alliance.
After waiting for many days, a task was finally assigned.
At this moment, Xing Baohua was in an awkward position. He was caught in a dilemma: should he finish his business and leave, or should he finish his business and then come back to do something more respectable?
Su Ya seemed to notice Xing Baohua's embarrassed expression and said with a smile, "It's urgent, you go ahead and do your thing, we'll wait for you to come back."
Being very understanding, Xing Baohua kissed Su Ya on the forehead and hurried to the computer room.
The email was a string of code that needed to be decoded. We needed to find the decoded content using the methods provided by a news website.
Xing Baohua saw on a news website that the task amount was only $50,000, no more, no less, and very easy.
Hacking into the University of Hong Kong's servers to search for financial academic reports?
Just that one sentence sent a chill down Xing Baohua's spine. If he hadn't known the level of the expert team from China, he wouldn't have cared much. But now that he knew, and at this crucial moment, they were sending him a message asking for a financial report?
Without a doubt, someone must have leaked the news about this group of financial experts.
It wasn't really a leak, since this academic conference was quite high-profile and they didn't try to hide anything.
As for the content of the meeting, it's just that some people want to know it in advance.
Just wait patiently, and the reports and academic conference content will probably come out later, so why are you in such a hurry?
After thinking it over carefully, Xing Baohua stopped feeling uneasy. At first, she thought something serious was about to happen.
But he frowned, still puzzled by many things. Why pay for these documents? Wouldn't they be available in a few days?
If I can't figure it out, I'll put it aside for now and use another small server to find a good botnet and log into the University of Hong Kong's server.
The University of Hong Kong's server had been under construction for two or three years and had always been closed. It was only recently connected after Hong Kong was connected to the internet.
It takes up very little space, and most of the files are plain text.
Xing Baohua used a search engine to search in both Chinese and English. The Chinese results yielded a dozen or so documents, while the English results were over a hundred. He didn't open them but instead pondered a question: was the task specifically targeting him or all members?
Everyone rushed to the HKU server and took away these hundred-plus Chinese and English files. The hacker alliance would give them 50,000.
Besides, HKU's servers are unsecured; there's absolutely no difficulty getting in! Anyone with basic hacking skills can get in and take whatever data is inside.
Why invite these experts to access such a simple server to retrieve data?
Unable to figure it out, he casually planted a hidden tracking virus. Xing Baohua then cleaned up the traces. After exiting the server, he used scanning software to scan the infected machine's devices to see if there were any viruses that had followed the trail.
After inspection, a forced entry device was installed, and the entire area was thoroughly cleaned before being removed. Someone was instructed to constantly monitor the laptop and call him immediately if any unusual activity was detected.
This time, the machine must be kept on 24 hours a day.
It was very late when I got home. I saw that Su Ya was already asleep, so I couldn't bear to disturb her. After all, she had a big meeting tomorrow!
To everyone's surprise, Su Ya woke up early the next day and asked Xing Baohua to accompany her for morning exercises in bed.
After having breakfast, Xing Baohua took Su Ya to the University of Hong Kong. On his way back to the company, he received a call from Secretary He, who asked him if he had any plans around 1 p.m.
Even if there was something to say, we had to say no, so we set the meeting time for 1 p.m. in an office next to the HKU auditorium.
Although I don't know what it's about, I feel like I'm quite the strategist. At least they're always available when I call.
Xing Baohua had just arrived at the company when the server room called and another alarm went off, so he had no choice but to have the driver turn around.
Upon arriving at the server room, I saw the IP address displayed on the alarm laptop, indicating that a tracking virus on the University of Hong Kong server had been activated.
There were many IP addresses, indicating they came from different countries—at least a dozen. Judging from these different IP addresses, he wasn't the only one who received the task email; many others did as well.
Is this a gathering of all alliance members to target the University of Hong Kong server?
Unfortunately, the University of Hong Kong's servers are not hosted in Xing Baohua's data center, but in their own independent data center, just following the main line.
The HKU server contains valuable items; if those papers or academic reports are valuable, they are indeed very valuable.
Consider the intended use, the field of application, and the people using it.
Furthermore, these papers and academic reports are basically public in nature, with no secrets hidden. They are intended for others to see, whether published online or in a journal, it's all the same.
Unless it's a patented text, anything publicly available online is patented; the patent application has already been filed.
Xing Baohua started another server and carefully logged into the HKU server following the same steps as last night, then searched again using the search function.
Sure enough, the search revealed something rather unusual.
Several articles were the first to be updated. Xing Baohua raised his hand to check the time, then opened a file and saw that it was about a financial academic report.
It's very short.
He opened several in a row, and they were all recordings of people speaking. He didn't study the meaning of their words carefully, but Xing Baohua realized that they were live reports from the scene.
Xing Baohua sent a pager message to Su Ya, but after waiting for two or three minutes, he did not receive a read notification.
After thinking about it, I called Secretary He.
After a long pause, he answered the phone and asked, "Mr. Xing, is there something urgent?"
"Find a secluded place where only you can hear it," Xing Baohua quickly said.
"Wait a moment!" Secretary He quickly walked out of the meeting room, and after making sure no one was around, said to Xing Baohua, "You can speak now."
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