Chapter 198: Ambush on All Sides
This incident of the political axe commanding hackers stealing secrets caused by the rescue of Maple Moon Shadow was only quiet for one night.
The next morning, Hu Yifei turned on the computer and found that the wind direction seemed to be a little wrong, and the PDF vulnerability used by the cold horn bird when attacking was suddenly detonated.
Following the little bit of vulnerability information released by Odobi, the United States suddenly announced that more than 30 high-tech companies in its territory have detected that their networks have been hacked, which happened a month ago, and the hackers took advantage of this PDF vulnerability, and the core technical documents of many companies were stolen. Among the companies under attack was Adobe, which claimed that the source code of many of its software had been stolen by hackers.
"Holy!" Hu Yifei really wanted to spray the saliva of the president of Odobie, saying that hackers used the loopholes of Odobie software to steal the source code of Odobie software, I bah, you can figure it out, what vulnerabilities are in your own software, you don't know better than anyone else, and even ran out to join in this fun, you are not planting, nor are you winning sympathy, you are using Lao Tzu as a mentally handicapped deception!
"What a fucking shame!"
Hu Yifei hated and scolded, and then looked at the list announced by the United States, there are four of the top ten reading software companies in the world, and some are oligarchic enterprises in the field of professional application software, these companies account for the majority, and among the remaining enterprises, some are precision original enterprises, some are defense industry enterprises, and all fields that are related to high-tech have companies on the list, and the losses are not small, all of them are stolen core technologies.
The United States only said that these companies reported losses, but did not make a conclusion about the origin of the hackers, but at the same time, the United States also said that this is the most serious technology theft incident in the history of the United States, and it cannot be ruled out that it is an organized espionage, and the United States will launch the highest level of investigation into the matter.
As soon as the United States shouted, other countries began to stand up and announce that some companies in their own territory had been hacked by the same method, and the time was also a month ago, but the loss was not as big as that of the United States.
"It can't be such a coincidence!" Hu Yifei was skeptical about this, this is too much, not to mention that Odobie's announcement yesterday did not introduce this vulnerability, why did so many accidents occur at once, does hacking have to be found after the vulnerability is announced?
Almost instantly, Odobi's PDF vulnerability became a loophole that could kill all the cutting-edge technology in the world, and if it continues, it means that the manufacturing process of the atomic bomb was stolen by this loophole, and I am afraid that someone will be able to immediately follow and make an offer.
Hu Yifei hurriedly got on the springboard, ready to find fried chestnuts with sugar and ask what was going on.
As soon as I opened the mailbox, I found that there was already a letter from the sugar-fried chestnuts inside, "The second master, something is wrong!" "I'm afraid it's hard to get out of Feng Yueying, and things are going in an uncontrollable direction!" ”
"What happened?" Hu Yifei asked.
The cold horn bird quickly appeared, "The attack has expanded!" Maple Moon Shadow estimates that she won't be able to come out for a while and a half! The cold bird is very depressed, things are really twists and turns, just pressed the wave, the United States made trouble again, Feng Yueying's luck is really not ordinary, this time it is even more difficult to come out.
"What's going on on in the U.S. today? Do you have any inside information? ”
"Old trick!" The cold bird replied, "The US political axe has invited McAfee and Verisign to investigate the hacking incident, if my estimate is not wrong, there will be no specific conclusions, but this basin will still be deducted from the heads of Chinese hackers, and in a few days, the US Department of Defense may ask for an increase in the budget for cybersecurity!" They haven't done this kind of thing once or twice, and every time they talk about the threat of Chinese hackers! ”
"!" Hu Yifei scolded, "Can you be sure?" ”
"**Don't leave ten!" The cold bird didn't dare to give the letter, "ZM is still doing a good job of intelligence in this regard, it's all my fault, it's just this time to fish for the maple moon shadow, and give such a good opportunity to play the topic to the other party, the United States will definitely take the opportunity to hype up the theory of the threat of Chinese hackers." This time they hyped up so much, I think there might be some big move!"
Hu Yifei is really angry, and he honestly can't avoid being beaten, and if the US Department of Defense wants to increase the budget, he will not forget to slap China with a dull stick first, and then ask Congress to pay for it, he will be justified, and by the way, he will also pour dirty water on Chinese hackers and Chinese political axes, killing two birds with one stone.
"I also arrived at ZM, only to have some understanding of the current pattern of the Internet, I used to hide in the shadows to engage in some sabotage, I felt very cool, now I think about it, it is really tasteless!" The cold bird continued, "That's why I invited the second master and ZM to cooperate, and everyone just took this opportunity to do something big!" ”
Hu Yifei had a headache when he heard this, "I'm really not interested in this matter, let's talk about it!" ”
"Then you think about it!" The cold bird did not force it, "There may be inexplicable attacks on the Internet in the past two days, so pay more attention to the two masters!" ”
"Okay, I got it!" Hu Yifei finished sending this sentence, and went offline directly, Hu Yifei was a little angry, and went to his website again, and issued a new announcement, "There may be inexplicable attacks on the network in the near future, please do a good job of network security measures!" ”
Looking back at the wolf's den, I found that many people were discussing this matter, yesterday it was just the British family, and now dozens of countries are coming together to encircle and suppress, although the United States has not yet announced the conclusion of the investigation, but many people on the wolf's den have chosen to believe that the British yesterday's Chinese hackers stole secrets.
It's okay if a family is stolen, but now there are so many stolen people at once, saying that he is a simple hacker, it must not be said, then not everyone has wronged you.
Hu Yifei looked at those comments, and thought to himself that I don't know who came up with the idea of planting this sham for hackers, it's really a genius, anyway, there are few things that can be checked out about hacker intrusion, saying that you are, you are, saying that you are not, and that is not, even if the IP that launched the attack is from Africa, people can also say that you are using an African springboard.
However, the United States is obviously smarter than Britain, Britain said that its national defense secrets were stolen, it is not ashamed, but the Americans are smart, their national defense secrets have not been lost, it is the core secrets of enterprises that have been stolen by hackers, the United States has always been a high-tech image, and it is also most afraid that others will remember its scientific and technological secrets, especially in the Western society that pays attention to intellectual property rights, so it is easy to win support.
"Alas......" Hu Yifei felt a little panicked in his heart, he was now the same as the cold bird at that time, he didn't start, and it was uncomfortable if he didn't start, he really wanted to start, but he didn't know who to start, and after a long time, he decided to go out for a walk.
At this time, what is more depressed than Hu Yifei is that it is dark, he doesn't have to guess, he knows that someone is using yesterday's British incident as an excuse to play it, it's really yellow mud falling off the crotch of his pants, it's not but, even if you are covered in mouth, you can't tell clearly.
Hei Tian hated the assassin organization a little at this time, and he had to discuss it with the Americans in advance!
In the next few days, no one came forward to say that the theft was done by Chinese hackers, but some of the world's well-known big media all focused on making some reports, such as "China's cyber attack force is world-class!" "There are more than two million hackers in China! "A number of well-known hackers were recruited by China's political axe to secretly develop cyber attack weapons!" 、...... I don't know how to say, but these reports appear in a concentrated way to guide you in this direction, so that you subconsciously connect the two things together, and this is the power of information intrusion.
On the fifth day, McAfee and Verisign each released their own investigation reports on the hacking incident.
After Hu Yifei finished reading the investigation of the two companies, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, the conclusions reached by the two security agencies were completely different.
Verisign said that the hackers used a double-vulnerability attack Trojan, mainly using the PDF vulnerability, which is exactly the same as the American political axe claims; McAfee, on the other hand, said that among the subjects of his investigation, no PDF Trojans were found, and the hacker's attack method was very complex, mainly using an IE vulnerability, first slowly implanting the malicious code into the computer part by part, and then combining it to carry out the next attack.
In terms of the damage to the companies under investigation, Verisign said that the hackers' targets were very clear, that is, the source code repositories of these companies, and that the hackers had succeeded in most cases; But McAfee doesn't mention the hackers' success at all.
The only thing that agrees between the two companies' conclusions is that the hackers' attacks were organized, launched at the same time, and ended at the same time.
In other words, it can be proved that the hackers' attacks were organised, but it cannot be proved that the hackers took advantage of the PDF attacks that appeared in the UK, nor can it be proved that the hackers successfully stole the source code of these companies, let alone who organized the hackers.
However, most of the subsequent media reports cited Verisign's investigative report. Only then did Hu Yifei believe that the sugar-fried chestnuts were not talking nonsense, and the trend of things was completely consistent with the original prediction of the sugar-fried chestnuts.
McAfee is the world's second-largest security company, and Black Sky used to work here; Verisign is even better, it is one of the basic Internet service providers, two of the thirteen root domain name servers in the world are in the hands of Verisign, Verisign also controls the registration and management of domain names, and indirectly, Verisign is also in the business of security intelligence, he is the big boss of the Carrot Alliance, controlling half of the global vulnerability trade.
"Damn, there are really people who come out to wave flags and shout, stand and cheer!" Hu Yifei compared the two reports on the screen, and Verisign's report was simply customized according to the template.
(To be continued)