Cold Warriors (Dylan Kane #3) (Special Agent Dylan Kane Thrillers) by Kennedy J. Robert

Author:Kennedy, J. Robert [Kennedy, J. Robert]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Published: 2014-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia

Chris Leroux pushed back from his keyboard, frustrated. He had hit a dead end in trying to trace the transmission sent by Islamov. They all had, the murky underworld of malware having lost the message in the ether, a disproportionate number of techs having been assigned the task of finding the receiver.

All to no avail so far.

The proverbial haystack wasn’t actually a good comparison anymore. It was searching for a specific needle in a stack of needles. No one profile stood out from any other, meaning there was no way to distinguish, and with tens of thousands of infected machines, it would take an army to round up their owners for questioning to see who had actually opened the file that was transmitted.

Ding!

He had an idea.

His fingers began to fly over the keyboard, launching his scripting software and within minutes he began designing his own chunk of malware to piggy back on the one hiding their receiver. As the script quickly grew, he remembered how much he loved to code, something he didn’t get much of an opportunity to do anymore now that he was a full-fledged senior analyst. He felt exhilarated with the idea of actually doing something rather than just reading or creating searches. This was real, actual spy work that would be unleashed on the world, that could do some good.

Which meant he better get it approved before he launched it.

A throat cleared at his cubicle entrance and his head spun to see Sherrie standing there, a smile on her face.

“How long have you been there?”

“Long enough to see that smile on your face grow so wide it was making me jealous.”

He wiped the smile off his face, but it quickly reappeared, he too excited to keep it hidden.

Sherrie sat down and looked at the screen.

“Whatcha doin’?”

“Writing some code.”

“That will do?”

He leaned forward, lowering his voice.

“I had an idea,” he began.

“Of course you did,” said Sherrie with a smile. “You’re the smartest guy here.”

“You’re biased,” he replied, then continued. “We’ve been trying to trace the data packet to its intended target, but there’s no way, there’s just too many people who received the packet due to the malware installed on their computers.”

“This is the Chechen transmission?”

Leroux nodded.

“Sorry, yeah, I guess I’ve just been so tied up in this I assumed you knew.”

“Go on.”

“Sorry, so anyway, I just realized that there’s no way to figure out who the transmission went to since it went to tens of thousands of people if not more. But, only the person who knew the transmission was being sent would know to open the data packet when it landed on their machine as part of the malware’s normal update cycle.”

Sherrie’s eyes opened wide as she realized what Leroux was saying.

“You mean tens of thousands had it downloaded, but only the guy who knew it would be arriving would open it.”

“Exactly.”

“And can you find out who opened the file?”

“I think so. I’m going to push an update to the malware software,

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