I Am a Great Scientist

Chapter 220: Ransomware?

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"What shows in the forest is destroyed by the wind. The super genius was brutally assassinated and hospitalized with his life and death unknown."

"An assassination in broad daylight, the unscrupulous use of despicable and cowardly people."

"Who is the perpetrator of this horrific assassination is clearly revealed!"

"Five horrific car accidents occurred one after another, and thirteen innocent lives were lost. The ultimate goal was only to create an assassination opportunity."

“…”

Horrifying and eye-catching headlines suddenly appeared on major news websites and video websites, and were accompanied by pictures of car accident scenes, pictures of bulletproof vehicles being flattened by steel ingots, pictures of bulletproof vehicles being devastated by bullets, and videos taken at the post-war scene. …

It's terrible and horrific.

The government held an emergency press conference, and the spokesperson sternly condemned the incident. The whole country mourned and the people were excited.

In the special ward of Peking University First Hospital, Zhou Xing stared at the notebook in front of him intently, enduring the pain in his arm and began to write code.

No evidence is needed as to who is the culprit who assassinated him. There are only a few countries that would be so cruel to him due to conflicts of interests.

Time flies, Zhou Xing's hands are placed on the keyboard of the laptop, and his fingers are flying, and there is a continuous "crackling" tapping sound.

Groups of green data streams composed of English and data flowed crazily on the LCD screen, which was dizzying to watch.

Standing aside, Tang Xin's eyes were filled with brilliance. She was amazed by Zhou Xing's powerful computer skills. At the same time, she was very curious about how Zhou Xing used a notebook to complete his revenge.

Finally loading the IP network segment of the attack target, Zhou Xing hesitated for a moment and finally pressed the confirmation button.

Zhou Xing suddenly felt lost and finished programming.

"Are you thirsty? Have a drink of water." Tang Xin handed Zhou Xing a glass of water and asked with concern: "Is it over?"

Zhou Xing took the drinking glass, took a sip of water, nodded and said: "It's over, the bomb has been sent out."

"Data bomb? Virus? Trojan? What did you just write?" Tang Xin stared at Zhou Xing with wide eyes and puzzled. Although she was also a computer major, she couldn't understand anything Zhou Xing wrote. Let alone figure out how he would seek revenge.

On the other side of the ocean, it was the dead of night.

As usual, Ronat arrived at the unit after ten o'clock at night, ready to start a new day of late-night work.

Ronat works for the Government Intelligence Department and is a highly skilled operation and maintenance engineer. His job content is: maintaining servers, websites, mailboxes, databases... and other work related to servers and data, keeping the servers normal and recording in a timely manner. Receive data "received" from overseas.

As usual, Ronat made himself a cup of coffee to refresh himself, then sat down in his seat, opened the server operation log, and checked the server operation status. After confirming that it was normal, he clicked on the database to view the received file data. .

"What the hell!" Ronat screamed.

Suddenly, the computer screen went black, and a pop-up box popped up, reminding him that the file he wanted to open had been encrypted, and he needed to pay a ransom of 1 Bitcoin within three days before he could open it. After the expiration date, all encrypted software and files would be lost. Automatically delete.

"I actually got hit by a ransomware virus. Has this ransomware evolved? FUCK!" Ronat cursed loudly, extremely depressed.

Ransomware is a "worm-like" virus software that mainly exploits vulnerabilities in Microsoft's "Windows" system to gain the ability to spread automatically. It can infect all computers in a system within a few hours, causing a large number of files to be encrypted and unable to Unravel, this is a very destructive computer virus.

In the past two years, the outbreak of the ransomware virus Eternal Blue was like a global Internet disaster, causing huge losses to the majority of computer users. At least 300,000 users in 150 countries have been infected, causing losses of US$8 billion. It has affected many industries such as finance, energy, and medical care, causing serious crisis management problems.

Is it making a comeback? And it has evolved to the point where it can break through the "Blue Shield" firewall and invade the server system.

The information in the server is extremely important. It was collected by countless overseas workers who "taken risks" and spent countless funds. If it was really harmed by this virus, the supervisor would kill him with one shot.

Ronat's face darkened, and he quickly used the computer to find data recovery software, such as DRS Data Recovery, R-Studio, WinHex... and other recovery software, trying to crack the virus and recover the data.

no! Not AES encryption mode.

wrong! It’s not RSA encryption either!

Am I dazzled

Something is wrong.

Oh my God! What's going on with this virus

Is this the kernel data just now? Why has it changed

“…”

From late at night to early morning, Ronat stared at the LCD screen with red eyes, trying various cracking methods to crack it. However, after getting the core data of the virus, he collapsed.

The core data of this virus is alive, like tarsal maggots entangled in the bytes of files. It is impossible to understand them unless the files are also deleted to solve them.

"Ronate, what's the matter? Nothing happened last night, right?" A hand patted Ronat's shoulder, waking him up.

"Jones, why are you here?" Ronat turned his head and looked at the black man who patted his shoulder and asked with a blank expression.

"Ha, it's time for me to go to work! You're off work, why don't you go back to rest?" Jones looked at Ronat curiously and asked.

"We're in big trouble! Look at this virus. Do you have a way to solve it?" Ronat came back to his senses and quickly pointed at the LCD screen and said.

Jones stretched his head over, looked closer to the LCD screen, and was stunned.

Ronat pointed at several changes in the virus data layer, looked at Jones as if looking at a life-saving straw, and said for help: "Look at the core program of this virus, here, here, their core system will change. , tell me, how can we crack this virus?"

"How is it possible? Is this virus still a logic program? What kind of algorithm is this? How can it be such a data structure?" As if his cognition was subverted by the virus's data structure, Jones's black face turned white in vain, and his eyes were black and white. Protruding, as if seeing a ghost.

"Is there nothing you can do? It seems that Bitcoin cannot be saved." Ronat said with great pain.

"Don't be anxious, come over and take a look!" Jones advised Ronat, and then continued to ask: "Is there something wrong with this server? What about the others?"

Ronat's face turned pale, he covered his face and said with tears in his eyes: "Everything went wrong. All servers have been invaded by this virus."

Hearing this, Jones glanced at Ronat sympathetically, he was in trouble this time! I'm afraid I'll lose my job.