No Mercy by Michael John Grist & Mike Grist

Author:Michael John Grist & Mike Grist [Grist, Michael John & Grist, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798739076786
Google: xwVnzgEACAAJ
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2021-04-16T07:00:00+00:00

26

Cryptoworm

Rogers worked her phone, chewing a path through multiple layers of staff in Humphreys' retinue, while Wren brought up his darknet. A host of VPNs bounced his signal around the world. Reinforced password protection. The best cryptography his elite team could build.

He logged in and tapped through to the open boards. They were empty, as he'd expected. No one posting since he'd given them the last warning. He thought of all his people out there now, some on the road, some staying in motels, trying not to be found. If the Blue Fairy had hacked them and doxxed their addresses to their Pinocchio army…

Better not to think about that. Still he did, with Alli in Wyoming, and Jay in Utah, and Cheryl and Teddy in hospital in Chicago, and countless others across the country and the world, all willing to put themselves at risk on his word. For coins, for influence, just because it was something good to do and Wren was there asking them to do it. Almost four hundred people total.

He rubbed his eyes and logged into the elite hacker board. These people couldn't be doxxed because they were the world's best, led by Wren's prize jewels.

Hellion and B4cksl4cker.

He'd scooped them both at the same time, in his legendary break of the Huggintime anti-government virus. Huggintime was a ransomware cryptoworm; a program designed to replicate itself across networks, take up residence in as many computers as possible, and lock them down with cryptography. It would then demand payments to unlock the data. Knowing that MO, along with several lines of the worm's source code generated after meticulous reverse engineering, Wren had narrowed his targets down based on coding signatures.

Arrogance often felled hackers. It wasn't enough for them to break into CNN or the Federal Reserve. To really 'own' the man they had to leave their graffiti tags behind: their handles, memes they favored, taunts that gave away grammatical and lexical clues.

Wren's team had followed that trail in an epic hacking slog that lasted weeks and put more than one member of his team into the hospital for exhaustion, but ultimately resulted in clear lines of data leading out.

One went to B4cksl4cker.

B4cksl4cker was then a twenty-three-year-old Armenian who ran an elite hacker collective, waging crypto-currency attacks through several enormous botnets. The numbers involved had been dizzying; half-a-billion compromised devices across the globe, including computers, phones, watches, tablets, all compelled by B4cksl4cker's directives to phish, keylog and data-mine for cash.

His operation was worth millions. Wren set forensic data analysts to track that flow of cash across the darknet, but still B4cksl4cker proved impossible to pin down. He took an un-doxxable approach to hacking, by never having a home to doxx. He and his team lived in multiple coach convoys that were constantly moving, through Europe, Africa, Asia, wherever. He wielded his teams, his botnet and all the hacking techniques like a virtuoso conductor, leaving a trail of legendary exploits behind and amassing a net worth close to four billion dollars.

Then Hellion broke him.

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