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Phantom. Now they looked at her differently. Like they’d accidentally discovered something dangerous hiding beneath polished skin. Jenna stood beside her, clutching a tablet too tightly. “This was buried in the malware,” she said quietly. “It kept regenerating every time we tried to isolate the breach.” Luna took the device. The file sat in the center of the screen. A black background, no sender, no metadata, just a timestamp. Three years ago. Her pulse slowed. Because panic was useless. Emotion clouded patterns, and patterns were all that mattered right now.

Stefan stood up straighter, then looked at the faces of the people in the room one by one. "AlfaProtect has been pretty good at scanning, detecting, cleaning, and protecting. Malware like viruses, worms, rootkits, ransoms, and spyware are all taken care of. I just wanted to test how strong AlfaProtect is. Look at the results." Theo chewed harder and harder. His mouth wobbled. Slowly a few wrinkles appeared on his forehead. He still didn't want to talk because he was too lazy to talk to Alan.

I whispered, staring down at the complicated circuitry with a deep sense of horror. Kade did not celebrate the discovery, and he did not smile with relief because his eyes were entirely focused on a tiny LED light embedded in the center of the foreign microchip. The small red light was not flashing slowly or sitting dormant. The light was glowing with a bright, solid intensity, indicating that the device was actively transmitting a massive amount of data in real-time. "The malware was programmed to recognize the specific bait file I just placed on the server," Kade said, his deep voice dropping to a harsh, gravelly rasp. "The moment the tablet automatically downloaded the fake transportation

"She's twenty-four, pregnant, and caught between powerful people. I'd be terrified too." Marcus looked up from his laptop. "No malware. No trojans. No remote access protocols. Whatever's on this drive, it's not designed to hack us." Small mercy. "Can you access the contents?" Patricia asked. "Already am." Marcus's fingers flew across the keyboard. "We've got... audio files, PDFs of emails, some spreadsheet documents, and what looks like a scanned contract." Patricia moved to stand behind him, reading over his shoulder. Her expression shifted from neutral to sharp focus.

I asked, the dark logic behind the plan clicking into place. He nodded, the faintest trace of a smirk curling his lips. “Exactly. The flash drive he's going to give to us will be rigged. Inside, there's a piece of sophisticated malware, dormant until the drive is plugged into our system. The malware is designed to replicate itself silently across our network, gaining access to our most secure files, tracking our operations, and even sending real-time data back to Jamie," he told me, making my eyes go wide. "And then?" I asked, needing to know what came next, but Alessandro’s response was immediate and curt.

As he watched his employer get drawn into his thoughts, Anthony hesitated. “There is something else,” he said slowly. Rafael’s eyes snapped back to him. “Say it.” “The infection vector,” Anthony said. “The logs indicate it was most likely introduced via a USB storage device. A thumb drive. External hard drive. Something physical.” Rafael stared at the wall behind Anthony as he started to go through how Felix could have gotten into his office. He decided he would have to ask Maria if he had used a thumb drive from Felix recently. He probably had. He did not remember. Too much was happening in his life all at once.

"Are you serious?" "Yes, ma'am," Luke confirmed with a firm nod. "The document you scanned was infected with a type of malware commonly known as a Trojan file. Or more precisely, a Trojan horse." "This is serious," Leeann breathed, clearly stunned. "Very serious," Amos repeated. "Someone went through great lengths to embed malicious code in that document. The moment you tried to interact with it—boom. Your system recognized the threat and shut down completely to prevent further damage." Eva took a step back, her mind spinning. "This is unbelievable."

I said "It damn sure seems like you are. May I remind you that if we don't get your memories and find a way to stop Kennedy. We're all fucking screwed." Mimi voiced. "Not as screwed as Corrie will be if she goes through with recalling with her memories." Ethel replied as we all looked at her for answers. She drags out a loud sigh, her eyes flashing across the room. "Look.." Ethel breathes. "Imagine a USB with malware. You delete the infected file, but the malware has already hidden another copy elsewhere. Later, you restore that hidden file. What happens?"

“Marcus, tell me what you see.” “I haven’t figured it out yet. This thing’s packing state-of-the-art encryption and a sophisticated peer-to-peer update mechanism. My guess is it’s a worm or a specialized Trojan horse, but I can already see it’s capable of covering up its actions.” “Covering up? How?” “Usually these types of programs either rewrite the attacked data on the fly or they wipe the hard drive, possibly rendering the affected device useless.”

Elena said, her eyes growing round. "Or worse." Adrian looked at the specialist who'd followed us downstairs. "Raymond had access to the system. What if he didn't just plant the malware we found?" The specialist's expression shifted uncomfortably. "You think there's more." "I think if I were the one planning this, I wouldn't put everything in one place." We exchanged glances, and as if on cue, we hurried back inside. The three other cybersecurity specialists stopped what they were doing and started a second search, sweeping deeper. This time, it was not just the quarantined malware, but the actual research data files that had the presentation documents and the financial projections.