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Chapter 1 The Flaw Nobody Noticed

When I pushed the conference room door open, I wasn't surprised to see everyone staring at the giant screen on the wall.The screen might as well be a sea of red.After all, the company's clearing accounts were frozen, which meant that transfer permissions were locked. As a result, client authorization requests were piling up by the second.My father, Richard Langford, sat at the head of the table with an unlit cigarette between his fingers. Usually, he would raise hell if anyone were to smoke in the conference room. Yet, today, he clearly had bigger things to worry about."Who let you in?"My cousin, Ryan, was the first to notice me. He kept his voice low, almost as if my presence alone might somehow make the situation worse."I was just passing by," I said lightly, setting the box of mechanical keyboard keycaps I'd been carrying beside the door. "I heard quite a commotion when I did."My father looked up, his brows furrowed. "This isn't one of your games, George.""I know." I

Chapter 2 Five Seconds

Nobody answered my question. So, I lowered my hand and looked around the conference room. "Check the actual connection timeout instead of relying on what's written in the configuration file."My father rubbed his temples, clearly running out of patience with what he thought were my foolish antics. "That's enough, George. Go back upstairs."I stayed where I was and made no attempt to leave.Leon adjusted his glasses and leaned forward. "Since you're so confident, why don't you be a little more specific, George? Which interface are we talking about?"I looked straight at him and replied bluntly, "The payment gateway. Someone would only need five seconds to get in."The conference room fell silent as everyone turned to face me. Even Leon looked caught off guard, but he quickly recovered and tapped a finger against the table."Do you even understand what you're implying?" he asked, his polite tone dropping entirely."I understand perfectly." I walked over to the projection screen, p

Chapter 3 The Framed Suspect

I stared at my phone, trying to process what Ryan had just told me. My game character stood motionless on my monitor, dumbly waiting for an enemy to finish him off.Someone had used my computer, or more accurately, someone had gone out of their way to make it look like I was responsible for the attack.I closed the game, grabbed my jacket, and headed straight for the elevator. This time, I was going back to the conference room because I wanted to, not because someone had called me down.…When I walked in, Dylan had already pulled up the activity logs on the giant screen. The records showed that at 2:58 a.m., a device identified as George Langford's Development PC, with the source IP address 192.168.50.123, had modified administrator-level access rules.Leon stood beside the screen, looking like a prosecutor who'd just found the evidence he needed to win."Well, George, I guess I don't have to ask who's responsible anymore," he said, turning toward me with a smug expression.I

Chapter 4 The Insider

I nodded confidently. "Absolutely."Then, I pulled up a set of legitimate login records and displayed them alongside the suspicious ones. Both sets showed the same hardware information, but their TTL values differed."Whoever spoofed my device's identity forgot one important detail," I explained. "Network traffic leaves its own fingerprints, and those aren't always easy to fake."Dylan studied the screen, then looked at me. "So, you're saying that the attacker planted a man-in-the-middle server inside our network?""Exactly."Ryan looked confused by the explanation. "But how did they get your device information in the first place?"I didn't answer him right away. Instead, I opened the company's code repository and searched for the device identification component.After I scrolled through the recent changes, I found a commit that immediately caught my attention. It had been submitted by Leon on 23rd September at 3:47 p.m., with a description that read, "Monitoring tool upgrade. F

Chapter 5 Taking Back Control

My father shot to his feet and shouted, "Security!"Two guards immediately rushed into the conference room and wasted no time grabbing Leon by the arms. He struggled against their grip, desperately trying to pull himself free."You can't arrest me! You have no authority to do that!" he shouted. "All I did was change a few settings!"I ignored his protests, took out my phone, and called the federal cybercrime division."I'm here to report a cyberattack against a major financial institution," I told the person on the other end.Leon abruptly stopped struggling when he overheard my phone call. He slowly raised his head and looked at me, a cold smile spreading across his face."Go ahead and arrest me. See what good it does," he sneered. "I'm not the one holding the access permissions, and the people who are controlling them are overseas. You'll never be able to touch them."I ended the call and turned toward him. "Then, where are the permissions?"Leon gave another mocking smile. "

Chapter 6 The Real Trap

I opened the command execution panel and requested temporary access credentials. A few seconds later, the system returned an access key, a temporary private key, and a session token.I copied the credentials into the cloud management console and opened the service's environment variables. As I scrolled through the entries, one particular name caught my attention.It was labeled "MASTER_KEY."I decoded the value, and a single string appeared on the screen: hacker_blacktide.Dylan leaned closer and frowned. "Is that the master key?""Bingo," I replied.I used the key to unlock a hidden file and discovered a program disguised as a legitimate system process. I only had a clear view of how the entire backdoor worked after decompiling it.The program was designed to allow only requests carrying Black Tide's authentication key to pass verification. It logged and blocked every other request, effectively giving the attackers complete control over which authorization requests could proc

Chapter 7 The Hidden Backdoor

I pulled up the system architecture diagram again and carefully went through every component we'd investigated so far.We'd already checked the perimeter firewall, security gateway, threat detection system, payment gateway, and authentication services. To me, I was seeing signs of an all-clear, but the system was still locked.I moved my eyes farther down the diagram until something finally caught my attention.It was the log collection service, the one component nobody had thought to question because it wasn't supposed to have anything to do with authorization.I stared at it for a moment before saying hesitantly, "I think I've found the real backdoor. It's hidden in the logging system."Dylan blinked in surprise. "The logging service? But all it does is collect system records.""Exactly, and that's why nobody thought to check it."I connected to the log collection server and began examining its configuration files. After I sifted through the directories, I discovered an encryp

Chapter 8 The Shadow Behind Me

Everyone in the server room heard the caller's words.My father turned toward me, his expression unreadable, but I could tell he was waiting for an explanation.The young man on the phone continued speaking as though he had all the time in the world."All that information you uncovered about those hacker groups three years ago? We planted it for you to find. You thought you were following the evidence straight to the truth, but all you were really doing was helping us test a few attack methods."He chuckled softly, clearly enjoying himself.I said nothing as I kept my attention on the hardware security module's recovery screen. The progress bar had reached 45%."Who are you?" I finally asked."I'm your shadow," he replied. "After you disappeared, I took over your old hacker alias. These days, half the people on the underground forums think the most dangerous white-hat hacker out there is still you."Dylan clenched his fists as he listened."He's just stalling," he muttered. "H

Chapter 9 Project Fortress

The board of directors gathered for another meeting the following morning, but the atmosphere in the room was completely different this time around.This time, there wasn't a single red warning on the large screen at the front of the conference room. Instead, the financial dashboard showed that all major systems were operating normally.Richard stood at the head of the conference table and briefed the directors on everything that had happened.The cyberattack had been traced to Black Tide, an overseas hacking organization, and Leon was now in custody. All five billion dollars in client assets had been unfrozen, the regulators had lifted their restrictions, and client confidence was finally beginning to recover.The board was visibly relieved by the time my father finished his announcement.The applause that followed sounded far more genuine than anything I'd heard the day before.Then came the floodgates of compliments.Apparently, I'd demonstrated remarkable composure under pre

Chapter 10 The First Well

The first week of our security overhaul passed without another attack from Black Tide, but instead I grew even more uneasy instead of feeling relieved.Good hackers didn't simply disappear after losing once. They studied their mistakes, adjusted their methods, and waited for another opportunity.I wasn't about to give them one.As the person spearheading the overhaul, I instructed my team to deploy three different types of decoy systems across Langford Group's network.The first was positioned along the network perimeter, the second near our authentication services, and the third disguised as an ordinary internal application.None of these systems contained anything valuable, but each one carried a unique tracking marker. If a hacker interacted with any of them, we could identify their activity and trace the connection's origin.I assigned Ryan to monitor the alerts.A month ago, this guy couldn't even be bothered to take notes during meetings. Now, he was spending his nights gl

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