Hei Tian was looking at the information in the office, and he received a call from Shi Octopus, who came to ask about the "rebirth" of the hacker group, although everyone belongs to the category of national network security, but the intelligence between various departments is not completely satisfactory, and it is difficult to share it synchronously.

"I don't have a lot of information about the Rebirth Organization!" Hei Tian didn't give the stone octopus high expectations, "I'll pass it on now!" ”

"Thank you, Boss Black!" The department in charge of Shi Octopus, the main job is to analyze all potential insecurity factors in the network, formulate defense strategies, his position, is a bit equivalent to the head of network security in the United Kingdom, Shi Octopus asked more, "The black boss help me analyze, will this hacker war between Britain and the United States spread?" ”

Hei Tian smiled, "I don't think this is a hacker war between Britain and the United States, but a war between Rebirth and Britain and the United States, so it will soon subside, unless there is a new external force in to stir up the situation!" ”

The stone octopus said "oh", everyone was an expert, and he immediately understood what Heitian meant, "Okay, I'll analyze the information of rebirth first!" ”

"You can't relax your attention to ZM, I think they're showing signs of moving lately!" The black sky reminded me.

"Okay, I'll keep an eye on it!" The stone octopus was ready to hang up the phone.

"If you need anything, just look for me!" Hei Tian hung up the phone with a smile, sat there and began to ponder the hacking storm caused by the extradition. Every time Gary lost the case before, it would trigger some small-scale hacking incidents, and as time went on, the scale of such hacking incidents became smaller and smaller, and there was almost no impact, and everyone expected in advance that there would be hacking incidents once the real extradition occurred, but they didn't expect it to be so serious.

Hei Tian feels that this thing is very abnormal, conventional hacker organizations simply cannot generate such a huge amount of energy, and it is impossible for Britain and the United States to detonate a cyber war, so he can only speculate that someone is behind the rebirth organization, but who is it?

“zm？ Mystery hackers? Or is it ......" Hei Tian felt a little uncertain, in addition to the organized power, it was ZM and the mysterious hacker who could produce such destructive power, but these two parties had no reason to get involved, otherwise ZM would have helped Gary back then.

Just thinking to himself, the assistant knocked on the door and came in, saying, "Boss, ZM has issued a new announcement, pointing out that the Rebirth organization attacked the British and American networks, taking advantage of the vulnerabilities of Microsoft's own browser!" ”

"I'll see!"

Heitian immediately opened ZM's server, and sure enough, there was one more announcement.

ZM pointed out that there is a serious bug in Microsoft's native browser, which is at risk of being hijacked, and hackers can exploit this vulnerability to control users from using Microsoft's native browser to access their designated targets. Everyone knows how much of a browser market Microsoft holds, so hackers can easily overwhelm their targets with even reasonable traffic.

Of course, ZM didn't say this casually, they not only pointed out the specific file that generated the vulnerability, but also explained the principle of the vulnerability, and even explained where the vulnerability came from.

The vulnerability was discovered by a hacker named "eye", who hung the information of the vulnerability on the carrot trading platform, after which the Rebirth organization spent $100,000 to buy it.zm and even provided a screenshot of the data of its transaction, which happened half a month ago.

At the bottom of the announcement, ZM provides a temporary patch file and issues a risk warning, believing that the vulnerability will spread in the short term, posing a threat to the data security of Internet users, and at the same time, ZM also believes that the hacking storm between the United Kingdom and the United States is also expanding.

It's a pity that ZM's huge influence is limited to the industry, and ordinary Internet users are afraid that her understanding is just a miscellaneous hair, and this early warning has little impact on most people.

After reading it, he quickly dialed Shi Octopus's phone, "Have you seen ZM's new announcement?" ”

Shi Octopus smiled wryly on the phone, "I just saw that I was arranging for someone to conduct a reverse analysis of the patches they provided!" ”

"It seems that this turmoil is likely to expand, you have to prepare early!"

"As soon as the results of the reverse analysis are available, we will immediately issue an early warning through the computer virus center!" The stone octopus is very experienced in this and does not need to be notified at all.

Hei Tian nodded, "I'll help you keep an eye on ZM's movements!" ”

Hung up the phone, Hei Tian pinched his forehead, and said in his heart that there was a good show to watch now, zm's announcement, it seems that there is still a bit of a sword pointing at Microsoft!

First, it is a vulnerability exploited by the Rebirth Organization, involving all versions of Microsoft's own browsers, and now it has caused so much harm, in the final analysis, it is inseparable from Microsoft's domineering behavior of bundling; Second, ZM is pressuring Microsoft, waiting to see Microsoft's jokes.

As we all know, since 03, Microsoft has set the second Tuesday of each month as the patch release, which has been praised and discouraged, but this practice has been implemented immovably for seven years. Now zm, as a third party, has exposed such a serious loophole, probably to see if Microsoft's big ass can sit still!

The assistant also said at this time: "Boss, ZM's recent movement is a bit strange!" ”

Heitian nodded, everyone can see this, the key is what makes ZM so active, they have always been unknown, why are they suddenly putting on a look like they are going to jump to the foreground, and the first time they showed their signboards, they pointed at the giant Microsoft?

"What's going on in Dongyang's network lately?" Heitian asked, he wanted to find some clues somewhere else.

"Nothing happens! After the mysterious virus incident, Dongyang City has restarted the project of a standard information security system, and COBRA is recruiting recently! The assistant thought for a while, "By the way, the intern named Hu Yifei resigned from Weilan, and the reason for his resignation seems to be because he was too close to the previous layman deputy director, which was jealous of Cobra." ”

Hei Tian frowned, it seems that he didn't guess right this time, and there is no contact between the two sides, "Continue to pay attention to ZM's movements, they will show their hole cards sooner or later!" ”

The assistant couldn't understand Heitian this time, so he had to quit Heitian's office and continue to work.

The day after ZM released the patch, many people analyzed the specific exploits of the vulnerability through reverse engineering.

The most active are the various underground hacker groups, they have taken crazy actions, taking advantage of this vulnerability to quickly spread Trojan viruses, expand their own territory, and make profits, and the number of computers recruited on the Internet is increasing exponentially.

Subsequently, the external force that caused the situation in the mouth of the black sky came, and the US-UK network, which had just been ravaged by the "rebirth" organization, was subjected to more malicious attacks, and the computers controlled by hackers initiated link requests from all over the world to more than 100 websites with great influence in the United States and Britain. Although these visits are scattered, they are superior to the large number of visits, which also leads to large-scale network congestion and website paralysis.

According to the analysis of security engineers in the United States and Britain, the number of controlled computers has reached tens of millions, which is not inferior to the previous ZM mysterious virus.

Cybersecurity officials in the United States and Britain issued a statement, saying that there is evidence that the hackers who launched the attack are likely to come from Russia, Iran and .......

Since then, the attacks have blossomed in all directions, and it is not only the United States and Britain that have been attacked.

One day later, Microsoft finally couldn't sit still, broke the convention, released the official patch in advance, and said that it would develop a more flexible vulnerability release mechanism according to the level of the vulnerability in the future. Major antivirus software vendors have also followed suit and made emergency upgrades, starting to strangle these virus Trojans that exploit vulnerabilities to carry out malicious attacks.

However, it seems a little too late, as the EU suddenly announced the resumption of its antitrust investigation into Microsoft, less than a year after the EU and Microsoft reached a settlement agreement, and Microsoft has not even had time to enforce the settlement agreement. This time, the EU proposed a tougher anti-bundling clause and demanded that Microsoft implement it immediately, rather than the small concessions it had made before.

Subsequently, more countries and regions followed in the EU's footsteps and joined the ranks. More and more people are realizing that Microsoft's bundling policy is really a security taboo.

After a week, the wave of attacks finally began to subside, and the Internet stabilized again. And the call for Microsoft to change its bundling strategy is also starting to get quieter, and everyone knows that this is not an easy task, at least no one dares to guarantee that their software will not have vulnerabilities.

A hacker attack that is not unexpected, but it has caused unexpected destructive power and has a huge impact, among which a few families are happy and a few are worried, who takes advantage and who suffers, and people in the know know it.

The Carrot Alliance is probably the happiest, this vulnerability was traded from their platform, and it turns out how clever their strategy of closed trading inside the vulnerability is, and if all software vendors join their platform, they can prevent this kind of incident from happening to the greatest extent. Carrot had contacted Microsoft before, hoping that Microsoft would support its trading platform, but it was rejected by Microsoft, because Microsoft would not pinch its weaknesses in the hands of others, and Microsoft also has its own 0day incentive project, and there is no need for such an intermediary trader.

And now, Carrot has contacted Microsoft again, and Microsoft has finally agreed to reach a verbal agreement with Carrot to cooperate with the two sides to a limited extent.

And the most worrying thing in the industry is the change of ZM, they are no longer simply unhappy to raise the stick, they now know how to take advantage of the situation, this time ZM knife to try a little, did not use any cutting-edge technology, but also stirred up the industry chickens and dogs, I believe they will have more actions in the future.

Hu Yifei is not interested in these killings at all, he has now figured out a way to make money, and he is busy living!

(To be continued)