Chapter 981: Hacker Attack
How could it not be, there are, some companies on the KGB list, already being targeted, General Electric, Telegraph and Telephone, Coca-Cola, Westinghouse, Amex, Boeing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć It must be noted that this order was not given by the General Secretary, but by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers Tikhonov. How can the general secretary have this ability, not to say that the financial knowledge is completely zero, but also basically zero.
On the contrary, Tikhonov, who is in his 80s and has maintained the planned economy for so many years, is able to make decisions on the basis of Serov's conclusions, although the economic laws of the United States are not his specialty.
And the computer system of the New York Stock Exchange was almost paralyzed on this day. With a total of 200 microcomputers on the New York Stock Exchange, the system has never handled such a huge transaction. When stock trading data floods into the computer, the computer can barely handle it. When sell orders poured in, the processing speed of the information system lagged far behind.
The computers of the 80s, as Serov said, could beat him if he trained someone with a good brain. It's just that this kind of person is very difficult to find, but computers can be manufactured in batches.
Less than an hour after the opening of the market, due to the large number of selling, the computer was 20 minutes slower than the actual trading speed; At noon, the designated instruction conversion system in the computer system is eighty minutes. More than a third of the total number of sell-offs has not been executed, and at the same time, stockholders, who have already felt the seriousness of the situation, have piled up the sell-offs again.
The KGB's fake propaganda department, unleashing the fake news that had been created long ago, spread it on the exchange, and aggravated the panic of ordinary stockholders, these news were plausible, and they all looked like they were true, and at one o'clock in the afternoon, a terrible news reached the Wall Street stock market, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission David? Speaking in Washington, Luther said: "At a critical moment, although we do not know when this critical moment will be, I will discuss with the stock exchange the temporary closure of the exchange." ā
The news caused even more panic. Because once the exchange is closed, traders will not have time to sell their stocks in the future, their shares will be worthless, and thousands of dollars will be reduced to ashes. As a result, they had to quickly "dump stocks". Road? By 2 p.m., the Jones Industrial Average was down 300 points, more than 400 million shares had changed hands, and computers were 100 minutes behind the actual speed of trading. During this time, members of the Securities and Exchange Commission came forward to clarify that they did not discuss the closure of the exchange. However, it was too late, and the catastrophe could not be stopped.
The inducer is still waiting and watching to step up the sale of the inventory in his hand, don't think about turning the tables anymore, and later, there is no need for fake news, "The news is true?" Now I have a question, that is, are the Americans really afraid of me, and the American media has been brainwashed for so many years, has it yielded any results? ā
Serov did not gloat, because it was not enough, he also wanted to add a fire, "Erich? Comrade Honecker got up or not, I want him to release a message that the USSR is ready to throw away all its foreign exchange reserves. Also, short selling ......"
He just wanted to release this fake news to see if it would affect the New York stock exchange, to see if the brand of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was useful or not, and whether it was useful or not Serov himself did not know, he just wanted to try.
But Serov can't do this on his own, and he comes forward to release false news, in case it's useless, it's a shame. If it is useful, it will be too hateful, and the United States, which has definitely jumped off a lot of buildings recently, does not hate itself to death. Now he can't forget the scene when he saw the Italian jumping from the upper floor after the pyramid scheme was rampant in Italy.
Serov was not much affected by that experience, and Mendelev, who witnessed a man falling into pieces, began to change his personality at that time, and finally became the head of the KGB's operational execution department specializing in homicide.
The stock market crash of the New York Stock Exchange is no longer a matter for the United States itself, and the so-called circuit breaker mechanism in later generations refers to the suspension of trading taken by the exchange to control risks when the volatility of the stock index reaches the specified circuit breaker point. It doesn't exist now, because this is a defense mechanism that only emerged after the US stock market crash, and now the stock market crash has just happened......
Sydney Futures Exchange, a large-scale sell-off also began at the same time, it seems to be corresponding to the United States, more than who runs, the sun is like with an invisible line, reminding the world's major exchanges of the opening time, everywhere is a miserable green, even the Japanese stock market is not out of the way, today is destined to be a miserable green, but Serov knows that the Japanese stock market still has two years to rise, and he doesn't care about the current loss of small profits.
The New York Stock Exchange was cloudy and the atmosphere was extremely tense. Prices change very quickly, there are not enough telephones, and the prices on the fluorescent screens cannot keep up with the actual market prices. A trader said he was on a phosphor screen? The Jones Industrial Average fell by four points, while the actual figure was five hundred.
At this time, an explosive news came that the general secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of the GDR, Erich? Honecker claimed that in order to prevent the stock market crash in the United States, Japan, and Australia from spreading to Greece, he had spoken to Serov, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and considered selling the dollar and using the ruble as the trading currency to prevent the Greek stock market from collapsing.
There was silence on the part of the Soviet Union, which neither admitted nor denied, and this attitude immediately caused a huge shock in Europe and the United States. The brother of the GDR, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange of the Federal Republic of Germany, was instantly knocked out by his own kindred, the stock sold even faster than in the United States, and the dollar was affected by Erich? Honecker's statement quickly weakened.
Erich? Honecker, of course, did not have the ability to do so, and a single sentence caused the Federal Republic of Germany to have a stock market crash, and the GDR did not have many dollars in reserve, only a few billion, less than one-tenth of the Federal Republic of Germany. But it was different with the Soviet Union, which controlled the vast majority of the entire Eurasian continent, and these countries alone may seem inconspicuous, but dozens of countries together have far more dollars in their hands than any country except the United States.
Erich? Honecker's statement of the princes, coupled with the Kremlin's ambiguous attitude, has dealt a heavy blow to the confidence of all securities, futures, and currency trading markets.
Even if half a day has passed, many Americans themselves do not know that the New York Stock Exchange has exploded. But the USSR and many countries of the socialist camp already knew. This is because there are now two computer networks in the world that do not interfere with each other, one is the Internet, which the Soviet Union has vigorously promoted, and the other is a network covering the United States and some of its allies.
"Many Americans who hold shares may not know that their stocks are worthless, and it will be interesting for them to know about the stock market crash tomorrow, remember to let tomorrow's Komsomolskaya Pravda follow up on the jumping incident in the United States!" Serov smiled at General Chebrikov, "At the same time, criticize the shortcomings of capitalism, and let us Soviets give some sympathy to the United States." ā
Serov knew very well that the proposal for Ligachev should be propagated according to a topic, analyze the causes, processes, and results, and finally list the big data, how many people jumped off buildings, how many people became beggars, and finally sang the praises of how great socialism is.
Normally, the trading volume is about 100 million shares a day, but on this day it is 1 billion shares. About half of the instructions failed to be executed due to the lag in the computer system, and many investors, especially small and medium-sized investors, did not know until two or three days later that their shares were not sold. In addition, the U.S. government bond market is also in turmoil due to changes in stock prices. News organizations, on the other hand, due to the influence of computers, reported the closing price of the stock market five and a half hours after the market closed.
Five and a half hours can change a lot of things, especially with the Soviet Internet running. Mexico, a border city near the United States, is home to a huge villa with the latest computers and the sound of keyboards tapping fast.
Everyone, male or female, is meticulous, staring at the screen with motionless eyes. The villa is already surrounded by Mexican militants, and no one will come in to disturb the work of this group at this time.
"Comrades, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and what we have received from our home country has shown that the US network is in a state of overload, and now is our chance to take revenge." A middle-aged woman with glasses shouted in a cold voice, "Five years have passed, and we want to take revenge this time." ā
The hacking incident was born at the same time as early as the advent of computers, and the biggest loss the Soviet Union suffered was because the KGB's activities attracted the retaliation of the CIA, which ran a virus on the Soviet Internet, which eventually paralyzed the computer network that controlled the Soviet gas pipelines, causing the explosion of the gas pipelines.
"At present, there has been a six-hour delay in the computer network of the United States, and the firewall has been breached, and the program developed by the Central Academy of Sciences has been buried, so that the Americans can also know how powerful we are."
The response to the middle-aged woman was the sound of the neat keyboard, when after the explosion of the gas pipeline, it took a long time for the KGB Main Directorate and the Eighth Main Directorate to determine that they were yin by their peers, and the KGB presidium ordered to punish these people, and at the same time waited for an opportunity to retaliate, until today, they finally waited for the opportunity.