The tricks and feet of "brushing daily active IP" will not be a problem after a few years. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

For example, in 2016, people could see top PPC links such as "60 yuan per 10,000 yuan per day for daily active IP" on Baidu.

Or Taobao, there are also thousands of stores that offer this service.

However, at this point in time in April 2000, "brushing IP" was still only at the level of "everyone wants to do it but no one can do it".

In the era when Gu Cheng lived in his later life, it is true that no one did such low-end things anymore. Thankfully, until he was 20 years old, the business wasn't extinct, so he had a rough idea of how it worked when he was a teenager.

Until the 2020s, human beings mainly relied on "botnets" to brush "daily active IPs".

Thanks to the hype of 361 Security Guards, the concept of botnets is familiar to most people in later generations.

It is a kind of bot virus (bot) that infects a large number of hosts on the network through various means of propagation, thus forming a one-to-many remote control network between the controller and the infected host.

When a botnet is in business, it seems that there are thousands of computers doing the same thing, but in fact, only a few people are operating behind it. Many computer users are unaware of themselves, like controlled zombies.

If Gu Cheng can find a controller of a botnet and spend some money to let him remotely control 100,000 computers to click on a certain website every day, wouldn't he increase the "daily active IP number" of the website by 100,000 out of thin air?

In today's entrepreneurial tide, as long as a large website has hundreds of thousands of daily active IPs, when it is listed on the NASDAQ, its market value may be tens of millions of dollars higher out of thin air, and it can raise a lot of more money.

100% profit is enough for capital to trample on all human laws, and website owners must be willing to spend a lot of money to deceive.

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After figuring out these tricks, the next problem Gu Cheng faced was how to find the botnet he needed.

His first instinct was to search the Internet for a virus called "Grey Pigeon".

The gray pigeon is a virus that has endured for decades, and it is the pioneer of the formation of botnets, and people with a little bit of Internet knowledge in later generations will not be unfamiliar with this thing.

If Gu Cheng can find the gray pigeon, he can even consider personally poisoning and creating a botnet, and then let the Internet bigwigs brush the data and collect commissions from these bigwigs.

It's a pity that he spent a whole day on the Internet looking for gray pigeons, and he didn't gain anything at all.

"All the suspicious channels on the Internet have been found, and there is no trace of the 'gray pigeon' at all. This thing hasn't been invented by humans yet. ”

That was his final conclusion before going to bed last night.

This judgment is very accurate - the "gray dove" was not written by humans until the beginning of 2001, and it does not exist on the earth today.

Unable to find the gray pigeon, Gu Cheng basically gave up the idea of forming a botnet himself.

Although he knew what the gray pigeon virus was and how it worked.

However, he was not familiar with the programming language and programming tools in 2000, and it was impossible for him to write the "gray pigeon" program himself.

Other methods are too slow to form a botnet, and time waits for no one.

So, he decided to settle for the next best thing: find a readily available resource online.

If you don't have time to build a botnet yourself, then "rent" someone else's already infected botnet.

It's a big deal to make less money per business unit price, so you should earn an intermediary fee. As long as the amount can run, the total amount is also considerable.

And there is an advantage to doing this, which is that you don't get your hands dirty.

On Saturday morning, he was looking for information.

The heavy CRT monitor has strong radiation, and he has been reluctant to surf the Internet day and night for a week, which has already made his eyes bloodshot.

In a cybersecurity bulletin published in January, the N.S.A. mentioned at least one zombie-like virus codenamed 'Glacier' that occurred in late 1999 and was developed using the Delphi program. ”

"The Delphi-based 'Glacier' virus is suspected to have originated from the writing of Huaxia hackers, but due to the small demand for distributed denial-of-service attacks in China, 'Binghe' has not spread on a large scale in China. ”

Finally, from the clues published on the website of the State Security Bureau of the United States, Gu Cheng got the important information he needed:

First of all, there is already a primitive bot program in this world that is also based on Delphi and similar to the purpose of the Gray Pigeon, but the infection spreads much less quickly than the later Gray Pigeon.

Second, the virus has been around for at least five months, and a group of hackers have used it to infect the computers of ordinary netizens to build botnets.

Third, the motives, or uses, of these hackers for building botnets are currently limited to "distributed denial-of-service attacks", commonly known as DDOS.

What the hell is a "distributed denial-of-service attack"? Ordinary people may not be familiar with it.

However, to translate it in a human analogy, even a three-year-old child can understand it.

For example, at 0:00 a.m. on the Double 11 Tmall Chop Hand Festival, tens of millions of netizens will definitely pinch and empty their shopping carts.

At this time, Taobao generally can't swipe the web page, because the traffic is too congested, and the number of visits exceeds the design carrying limit of the server.

If Taobao's competitor Jingdong wants to play a shady role, then he can secretly hire a few hackers with a large number of botnets. Then it was calculated that at the moment just after 0:00 on Double 11, millions of infected zombie machines were organized to visit Taobao at the same moment.

As a result, customers who normally buy things on Taobao will be squeezed out, unable to log in, unable to pay, disgusting the user's shopping experience, and slowing down the speed at which Taobao refreshes the turnover record.

This is a distributed denial-of-service attack – a botnet that crowds out server requests and disconnects real users who really need the service.

In the early days, when hackers used botnets, they often played the role of killers who "took people's money and eliminated disasters for others". If there is an opponent in the circle who wants to kill an Internet tycoon in the business competition, then hire a hacker to make a grudge, squeeze the opponent's website, and then give the hacker some commission.

However, this model is also doomed to a drawback.

That is, early hackers didn't need a botnet on a large scale, and they didn't have an incentive to infect the botnet further.

Especially in the 2000s, Huaxia was in an environment where the network infrastructure was underdeveloped.

In 2000, the server capacity of Huaxia's largest portal and search engine was only tens of thousands of visits at the same time.

In other words, to be a hacker in Huaxia who collects money to take over DDOS business, 50,000 broilers (broilers: the circle refers to computers infected with zombie viruses) is absolutely enough.

50,000 broilers entered in the same instant in seconds, whether Sina Sohu or Huang Yi, they were all paralyzed.

No matter how many broilers there are, there is no place for them.

Therefore, it is easy for the botnet owners in China to "get rich and be safe", and after expanding to tens of thousands of infections, there is no incentive to continue high-profile expansion.

This bit of broiler chicken is enough to make DDOS. But if you want to help the giant brush the daily active IP, it is a drop in the bucket, and you can't make much money at all.

To make a lot of money by brushing daily active IPs, you need at least ten times or even dozens of times the scale of the botnet.

Some people may think: why do you have to find such a large botnet at once? Isn't it good to do a few more strokes and snowball slowly?

The answer is: no.

Because what Gu Cheng did was completely just an innovation in a business model, there was no technical threshold, and it was a gray area on the edge of the law.

It's the same as the "click" business that was overdone half a year ago. As long as the first order of this kind of business is completed, it will definitely leak out in less than a month. And then hackers all over the world are inspired to follow suit.

At that time, those big hackers have their own botnets, and they don't need to go through Gu Cheng's "intermediary" at all.

And the law does not protect the "patent rights" of a "criminal method" at all.

If Gu Cheng wants to make a lot of money, he must make a decisive amount of money that multiplies his assets several times in the first big order he receives after inventing this trick!

The lifespan of this business will definitely not exceed half a year! Just like its predecessors, "swiping and clicking", the life span is as short.

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"Binghe was born in China, but it did not flourish in China. Well, where do you go to find a botnet that is large enough?"

The most painful thing about Gu Cheng is that there is no one to discuss this matter with him.

As long as it is discussed, the idea is destined to leak out.

He could only walk alone.

"If it was just for DDOS, the botnet would certainly not have grown to the scale that it was later. What caused the second wave of botnet development in human history?"

Gu Cheng felt faintly enough to catch a little thought, but he was not very convinced.

"Goo~" He thought about it for too long in front of the computer desk and forgot the passage of time.

These days he wakes up early in the morning, has an irregular schedule, and is already hungry by noon, but he doesn't notice it.

"Forget it, take a break after eating and check the information. ”

Gu Cheng stood up, stretched, picked up a pack of instant noodles from the table, and was about to tear it open and throw it into the rice cooker.

At this moment, his cheap mobile phone suddenly rang, and when he picked it up, it was a call from Cheerilee.

It is difficult to tear the plastic bag with one hand, so he can only put the ramen down first.

"Sister Che?"

"A legendary thing...... Have you figured out a solution?" the voice on the other end of the phone flickered slightly, as if you could imagine Cheerilee's worried expression.

"Eh, what can you do?" Gu Cheng was stunned by Cheerilee's brainless question, and immediately reacted:

Cheerilee must have been afraid that he would think Park Young-gwan's offer that day was too expensive and run away.

Thinking about the joint, Gu Cheng said naturally: "No, I've been working blindly for a week, and I don't have a clue." Mr. Park's price is a bit unauthentic, but don't worry, I'm still interested in the legend. ”

"Yes, if you're interested. Cheerilee's voice revealed a little reassurance, "I broke the bill last time, are you free for the past two days?" ”

Eat? Don't you have to?

Gu Chengxin said that he still had something to do and was about to refuse.

However, the next second, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind.

Thanks to Cheerilee's call, he thought about the reason for the second wave of botnets in history.

When the words came to his lips, he became: "Okay, I'm free today, where to see you." ”

Cheerilee: "Well, then I'll see you at 1 p.m. at the entrance of Lotte Mart at Myeongdong Station." ”

Gu Cheng hung up the phone, threw the ramen back on the table, and then walked into the bathroom and looked in the mirror for the first time in a week.

When did my brother become haggard like this? No, I have to clean up properly.

He is not afraid that others will think he is not handsome, but he cannot tolerate others thinking that he is down.

(Thank you for the tips from 6 book friends such as Next Year, Tianfeng Chenying, and Scarlet Tiger.) )