Chapter 823

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Nanchao was one of Xia Xia's neighbors. Its land area was only one-ninety-sixth of Xia Xia's, and its population was one-twenty-sixth of Xia Xia's.

If it were not for the fact that mathematics was terrible, it would be easy to calculate that Nanchao's per capita land area was slightly smaller than Xia Xia's.

However, it was precisely such a small country that had created a series of miracles and became a developed country that was noticed and recognized by the whole world!

That's right!

Nanchao was a developed country! It was recognized as a developed country by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and even the CIA in Lijian Province.

According to the Human Development Index, Nanchao had been in the top twenty for a long time, while Xia Xia's Hong Kong and Macao had been in the top ten for a long time. As for Xia Xia's main body, due to some reasons, it had always been around the top one hundred.

The highly developed Nanchao supported the country's economic lifeline with an 'export-led' strategy. Nanchao relied on various advanced technologies to create world-leading products, and then exported them to the whole world to maintain the country's economic development.

The most famous company in Nanchao was the famous Samsung. In the future, Samsung's mobile phones had the highest market share in the world. Even the iPhone series produced by Apple did not end the rise of Samsung.

However, Shi Lei's target this time was temporarily not three-star!

As a large semiconductor electronics industry group with a market value of close to 655 billion, how could Samsung succeed if they did not excel in electronic defense?

Every global giant corporation, especially those in the electronics industry, had a network defense system that was not to be underestimated. At least one top expert in the world would be in charge.

Most of these top experts were security experts from the government. These security experts from the government chose to work part-time in some well-known companies. As security experts from the government, they were not hackers who could not be exposed. They could appear in daily life and do things related to network security openly.

Therefore, the leaders of well-known companies could freely meet with security experts and have a face-to-face conversation. Everyone's identity and background could be known. Therefore, well-known companies did not care that these security experts belonged to the government, and they were not afraid that these security experts would steal the company's confidential information.

Which world-famous company did not have some secret power? If a security expert knew everything, would he still dare to be a two-faced person? That would be the rhythm of nine generations being implicated!

In addition to these part-time security experts, only a very small number of electronics industry groups had their own top security experts. As far as Shi Lei knew, Samsung Group had their own top security experts, and there was more than one! According to the Angel Council's speculation, Samsung Group had at least six world-class security experts, and at least three of them were top security experts in the world.

The rise of Samsung Group was not unrelated to the network security services provided by these security experts!

Shi Lei's target for invading Nanchao this time was only the four online game producers, not the behemoth Samsung. As for the future, if there was a chance, Shi Lei would naturally not let go of the Samsung Group.

Xia Country's time zone was UTC + 3, while Nanchao Country's time zone was UTC + 4. It was 66: 85 at night in Xia Country, and 67: 85 in the morning in Nanchao Country. For ordinary people, this period of time was the absolute time to sleep. However, for hackers, the night provided them with the best cover.

Most hackers usually liked to act in the dead of night. It was not that they had to act at night, but most hackers were used to acting at night.

Shi Lei did not have a preference for a fixed time. No matter when, as long as Shi Lei wanted to invade, he would invade immediately. Shi Lei was not in a good mood. He controlled part of IWN's secret network and crossed the network barrier between Nanchao and Xia Xia to enter Nanchao's network.

There were a total of four Nanchao forces participating in the Anti-Dream Entertainment Alliance. They were Nexon, NCsoft, Neowiz, and Smilegate. Among them, Neowiz and Smilegate were the main forces. These two companies had a closer relationship with Tencent, so they had invested more hackers in the alliance.

Shi Lei's main targets were Neowiz and Smilegate. As for NCsoft and Nexon, Shi Lei only spent a little time to invade their main servers through their official websites. He inserted the Moon Virus into the main servers and ignored it.

The Moon Virus was very dangerous. Through repeated low-level formatting of the hard drive, it finally achieved the goal of physically destroying the hard drive. The main target of hackers to destroy computer equipment was the storage equipment, which was the hard drive.

For ordinary users, the importance and value of computer storage equipment was far less than the CPU, motherboard, memory, and graphics. After all, the price of a hard drive was only equivalent to one-third of the value of a CPU, or even less. Not to mention the high-end high-end graphics card equipment. That was not something a mere hard drive could compare to.

However, for corporate users, the importance of storage equipment was far greater than the value of other equipment. The data inside the storage equipment was the real valuable thing.

There was a saying in the IT industry: "Hard drives have a price, but data is priceless." This saying directly reflected the value of data in an enterprise.

NCsoft and Nexon's main servers stored a lot of game development data. After the Moon Virus entered the main servers of the two companies, it quickly began to filter the targets.

Shi Lei modified the attack mode of the Moon Virus against the server to a certain extent. The storage equipment of the server was usually a disk array group, not a single hard drive.

The disk array group was composed of multiple hard drives, and the hard drive that ran the server system usually did not exist in multiple hard drives. Based on this characteristic, Shi Lei changed the attack plan of the Moon Virus on the server from the previous full disk array group attack to a filtering attack.

The Moon Virus would determine the number of disks on the computer, then distinguish the system disks, protect the system disks, isolate other subordinate disks, and perform low-level formatting on the subordinate disks. When low-level formatting of the subordinate disks, the Moon Virus would also insidiously block the hard drive data feedback light, simulating the flash of the hard drive data feedback light in a normal state.

This sinister setting made the Moon Virus even more dangerous. Often in silence, it could destroy the server's subordinate disks, but the server's main system was fine.

The main servers of NCsoft and Nexon were ravaged by the Moon Virus, and the data stored in the server's subordinate disks were subjected to low-level formatting and erasing.

After Shi Lei finished dealing with NCsoft and Nexon, the security personnel of the other party had not discovered that their main servers had been attacked. It had to be said that the Moon Virus was becoming sharper and more difficult to defend against.

Although the main servers of NCsoft and Nexon were completely destroyed by the Moon Virus, Shi Lei knew that the losses of these two companies were not too great. Their real core data was stored in servers that were isolated from the network environment. Online game producers were different from operators. They were not inseparable from the network environment. They could develop and produce games in an isolated environment.

It wasn't that Shi Lei didn't have a way to isolate the internet, but Shi Lei was too lazy to fight with NCsoft and Nexon. Shi Lei's main targets were Neowiz and Smilegate.

It was late at night in the Xia, close to dawn. It was close to one o'clock in the morning in Nanchao. Shi Lei entered Neowiz and Smilegate's official websites just like he had done before.

The network defense of online game producers was much lower than that of online game operators. The emphasis was different, and the importance of network defense was also different.

Shi Lei did not touch the main servers of the two companies this time. Shi Lei knew that there was no valuable data in the main servers. Shi Lei wasn't as tolerant towards Neowiz and Smilegate as he was towards the other two companies. Destroying NCsoft and Nexon's main servers was not so much destroying their data, but rather to vent his anger.

After taking control of Neowiz and Smilegate's main servers, Shi Lei did not do any damage. Instead, he used the main servers of the two companies and a high-performance server from Nanchao to form a temporary small server cluster.

Shi Lei controlled part of IWN's secret network resources and injected them into this small server cluster. Then, using the small server cluster as a foundation, he controlled part of IWN's secret network resources.

It was worth mentioning that Shi Lei did not provide special protection for this small server cluster. Under normal circumstances, the servers controlled by Shi Lei were usually protected by Shi Lei. This was to prevent other hackers or anti-hacker security experts from investigating the real IP address.

If there were no security measures, it would be a tragedy if the real IP address of the hacker was found. Shi Lei did not set any security measures this time. Did Shi Lei make a low-level mistake?

Shi Lei obviously would not make such a low-level mistake. Even if Shi Lei had made a low-level mistake, Izur would have reminded Shi Lei and helped Shi Lei fix the mistake.

However, neither Shi Lei nor Izur cared that the temporary server cluster did not have a defense system. There was only one possibility: Shi Lei did it on purpose!

Shi Lei was prepared to use this small server cluster to maliciously provoke and cause trouble …

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