Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 537 Want to play? I'll play with you.
Bangkok, top floor of Siam Telecom headquarters building.

The CEO's office was filled with the thick smoke of cigars and the rich aroma of whiskey.

Somchai, the tycoon who controls the lifeline of Thailand's telecommunications industry, was comfortably leaning back on a leather sofa. Opposite him sat Park Jung-hwan, president of Samsung Electronics Southeast Asia, while Lee Myung-ho stood respectfully behind Park Jung-hwan.

"Mr. Songchai, thank you for your assistance." Park Jung-hwan raised his glass, his smile reserved yet satisfied: "The player forums for 'The Legend of the Primordial Era' in Thailand are already filled with lamentations. I think that before long, their online player count and recharge revenue will plummet."

Songchai exhaled a smoke ring, his chubby face beaming with smiles: "President Park, you're too kind. It's nothing. Adjusting the routing strategy and lowering the priority of unimportant game traffic is like lifting a finger to me. It's our honor to be able to help such a esteemed partner as you."

He changed the subject abruptly, displaying a businessman's shrewdness, and said with a smile, "But what about the priority cooperation rights you promised before regarding the 3G trial network in Thailand?"

“Of course!” Park Jung-hwan immediately assured, “Mr. Songchai, you have no doubt about Samsung’s reputation. As long as we make Momo Group suffer a complete defeat in Southeast Asia this time, and let them know the consequences of challenging Samsung, we will definitely give priority to Siam Telecom in future cooperation.”

Songchai laughed and said, "That's good. As you all know, I'm under a lot of pressure doing this. If Thai companies find out that we're suppressing a game company indiscriminately, they might refuse our network access next year out of a sense of crisis. Mr. Park should be well aware of the Southeast Asian network market."

Each country in Southeast Asia has three operators, belonging to three different forces, and their competition far exceeds that between China Telecom and China Netcom.

Although Somchai has captured 70% of the Thai market, two other operators have been eyeing it covetously.

Park Jung-hwan smiled and said, "Mr. Songchai, rest assured, Momo Group will not be able to find conclusive evidence to prove that we did it. Even if they suspect us, they can only suffer in silence."

Songchai smiled. He was about to raise his glass to clink glasses with Park Jung-hwan when his personal cell phone on the coffee table suddenly vibrated. It was his secretary calling.

"What is it?" Songchai answered the phone with some displeasure, his tone conveying annoyance at being disturbed.

"Boss! Something bad has happened!" The secretary's voice was low as he said, "Please check the internet quickly. Momo Games has released a global announcement that has exposed Siam Telecom and Samsung."

"What?" Songchai's smile froze instantly.

He grabbed the laptop next to him and quickly clicked on the news link his secretary had sent him.

Upon seeing the glaring title, "An Open Letter from Momo Games to All Players of the Primordial Asian Server," Songchai's expression turned slightly unpleasant.

Although the announcement did not directly name Samsung and them, the implication of international giants and dirty business practices was all too clear.

What made him even more uneasy was that the announcement specifically named ISPs such as Siam Telecom, Archipelago Connect, and Pacific Rim Communications, directly accusing them of being accomplices in malicious interference.

The most dangerous thing is the $1000 million bounty.

Compared to the $5000 million bounty on the technology solution, the $1000 million in the first place posed a greater threat to them.

He wasn't sure if his men would be able to resist the temptation of $1000 million.

"Damn it, how dare they?" Songchai was so angry that his whole body trembled, and his face turned from red to green.

He could imagine the uproar his actions would cause among Thai gamers if someone in his group betrayed him and provided evidence.

It's important to understand that there aren't many Thai businesses to begin with, and their main customer base is households.

Many of these family users are veteran players of the game "Honghuang Zhanji".

Once this is exposed, these households will definitely switch networks next year.

What will his 70% market share become?
Park Jung-hwan also saw the contents of the laptop. His eyes were calm as he said, "Mr. Songchai, calm down. They won't get any evidence."

Songchai suddenly looked up, his eyes bloodshot as he stared at Park Jung-hwan, and said in a deep voice, "That's 10 million US dollars! Do you know how many people in my company earn less than 10,000 US dollars a year? Can you guarantee that no one in my operations team will be tempted? Can you guarantee that no competitors or people within the company who are jealous of my position will take advantage of my misfortune?"

Fear instantly gripped Songchai's heart.

Momo Games' move is too vicious! This isn't a battle of technology, it's a war of hearts and minds.

However, this means that Momo Games has completely offended them.

This is not a wise move.

Normally, they should come to our door to discuss terms.

Everyone amicably closed the door, agreed on the terms, and chose a compromise solution.

If you're willing to spend 100 million, at the very least, you can change the weekly all-day lag to 135 lag and 246 smoothness.

The option is to confront them head-on, which would result in complete antagonism.

Songchai dislikes Momo Games as a competitor, finding them reckless and impetuous, like a young and arrogant teenager.

Jingzhou City, Momo Games Operations Center.

"Network interference in the Siam Telecom coverage area in Thailand has worsened significantly, with both latency and packet loss rates increasing!" a monitor reported loudly.

"The interference intensity in the Indonesian archipelago interconnection area has also increased by 20%!" another monitor shouted immediately afterward.

Kong Feng knew that their announcement had angered these telecom tycoons.

He glanced at Cheng Yi subconsciously, but didn't say anything.

He doesn't advocate angering these telecom tycoons; everyone must be a local strongman.

At this moment, Lin Qingyin, who was debugging the network security guard on the Hong Kong server, suddenly said: "The Hong Kong server has encountered a DDoS attack. I think this is the first wave of probing, and their next wave of attacks should be coming soon."

Cheng Yi went over to take a look, and sure enough, the server firewall had just encountered a probing DDoS attack.

Lin Qingyin temporarily suspended the network security test and immediately formulated firewall policies on the server.

She had just finalized her strategy when an extremely powerful DDoS attack hit the firewall.

"It's here! The peak attack traffic has exceeded 300Gbps, more than a hundred times that of before! The sources are very dispersed and highly disguised. Preliminary analysis suggests it has characteristics of a botnet and reflection amplification," Lin Qingyin said while defending.

Kong Feng angrily said, "This must have been done by Samsung. They wanted to cripple the servers so that the ISPs wouldn't be held responsible for the lag issues."

At the same time, inside the strategic monitoring room of Samsung Electronics headquarters in Seoul.

Li Minghao stared at the still surging DDoS attack traffic on the screen, as well as the Hong Kong server region corresponding to the Asia server of Honghuang War Chronicles.

"Why haven't we broken through yet? How come their defenses are so strong?" Seeing that he hadn't disconnected from the game, he immediately roared into his headset.

"Manager, their traffic scrubbing capabilities have exceeded our expectations, and they seem to have a very efficient attack source identification and filtering mechanism. Our zombie nodes are being lost very quickly." The technician's voice carried a hint of disbelief as he said, "They seem to know a lot about DDoS attacks."

At this moment, inside the Momo Games operations center, the red bar chart representing DDoS attack traffic, like a runaway blood pressure monitor, frantically surged to the 300Gbps peak line and continued to tremble, attempting to break through further. Firewall logs were refreshing like a waterfall, with countless malformed data packets from spoofed sources, utilizing reflection amplification protocols, relentlessly bombarding the server cluster's entry point.

“The attack sources are too dispersed. There are springboards in South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and even South America. The botnet is very large.” Lin Qingyin’s voice was tense, but her fingers still steadily switched between multiple terminal windows, quickly deploying temporary traffic scrubbing rules and black hole routing strategies.

Kong Feng, watching from the side, had sweaty palms and couldn't help but say, "Damn, how many botnets are there? Samsung is going all out to kill us."

Cheng Yi stood behind Lin Qingyin, arms crossed.

SYN Flood, UDP Flood, DNS Amplification…

He looked at the familiar attack patterns on the screen and couldn't help but laugh.

Samsung has actually taken the initiative to enter their home field.

Momo Group now possesses the strongest DDoS attack channels in China because they are constantly trying to eliminate those private servers for the Legend of Mir game.

In the realm of the internet, cyberattacks, though dishonorable, are arguably the sharpest sword.

And those IT giants also wield this sharp sword.

When they discover a new adversary that they cannot surpass or replicate, their first step is to launch a massive DDoS attack.

All Momo's directly operated and core franchised internet cafes now have an antivirus software called Internet Cafe Guardian installed. This antivirus software appears to be an antivirus software, but it actually has a built-in collaborative response module that can be activated at any time.

In non-Momo-affiliated internet cafes that have installed the Momo system, the free Momo Internet Cafe Management Software is installed. On the surface, it is internet cafe management software that integrates functions such as billing, system restore, and game updates. However, in the deepest part of the code, there is also a hidden and highly efficient botnet control terminal.

141478 internet cafes, 18784521 computers!
Up to now, Momo Group's attacks have only required the use of internet cafes affiliated with Momo.

Because so far I haven't encountered many opponents who can handle me.

Cheng Yi said slowly, "Since Samsung wants to play, then let's play along."

He leaned down, close to Lin Qingyin's ear, and whispered, "Targets: Samsung Electronics' global website, Samsung Anycall mobile online service center, and their securities trading system's core gateway. Use the most brutal ICMP Echo Request and TCP SYN packets to saturate their ingress bandwidth and let them experience what lag is like."

Lin Qingyin's finger hovered over the Enter key for a moment, then she looked up at Cheng Yi, a complex emotion flashing in her clear eyes.

She knew what this order meant; it was practically a table-flipping incident.

But seeing the still surging red attack on the screen, and the determination and ruthlessness in Cheng Yi's eyes, she did not hesitate at all.

“Okay!” Lin Qingyin stood up and said, “Then the Hong Kong server doesn’t need any defense for now.”

She left the operations center and quickly returned to Cheng Yi's office.

The computer used for the attack was kept in Cheng Yi's office.

Lin Qingyin skillfully turned on the machine and began to carry out Cheng Yi's orders.

In an instant, an invisible wave of commands, transmitted through Momo Group's vast private backbone network across China, spread to tens of thousands of Momo internet cafes nationwide.

On all the computers in the Momo Internet Cafe, the inconspicuous blue shield icon in the lower right corner of the screen flickered slightly.

A program named NetHelper.exe, hidden deep within the system process list, was instantly activated...

Seoul, Samsung Electronics headquarters, strategic monitoring room

"Manager, the defenses on the Hong Kong node are starting to weaken. We can breach it now," a technician who had been intently watching the screen suddenly shouted, his voice tinged with doubt. "Strange, it seems like they've suddenly given up on their defenses."

Li Minghao's tightly furrowed brows had just relaxed a little, and before he could think about it further, a piercing alarm suddenly blared wildly on another screen in the monitoring room. That screen was connected to Samsung's internal network status monitoring system!
"Warning! External DDoS attack!"

"Warning! Surge in attack traffic!"

"Call and ask what's going on?" Li Minghao's face darkened.

"Okay." The strategy team immediately dialed the number of the data center technical team.

After a while, the technicians in the strategy room turned to look at Li Minghao and said, "The server room says that our official website has been hit by an extremely strong DDoS attack."

"Did you manage to defend against it?" Li Minghao pressed.

"The traffic is too high, our official website has crashed, but they are restarting the server and adding new defense strategies," the technician said immediately.

At that moment, several more exclamations came through the speakerphone:

"Oh my god, Anycall's online service center bandwidth is also fully utilized!"

"The core gateway of the securities trading system is experiencing a surge in latency! Trading orders are being severely delayed!"

The news immediately caused some chaos in the monitoring room.

The red warning light, originally intended for attacking others, was now flashing wildly on the screen representing Samsung's own network.

Li Minghao's face instantly turned pale.

"What's going on? Where did this attack come from?" He grabbed the microphone and roared, his voice even changing intonation.

"Manager, the sources are too mixed! Preliminary analysis shows some IP segments from China, but most are stepping stones! The attack mode is very basic! It's just the most primitive Ping flood and SYN packets, but the quantity is terrifying. Our bandwidth is instantly saturated, and our firewall is really about to break down!" The technician's incredulous voice came from the other end of the phone.

This method of launching saturation bandwidth attacks using a massive number of terminals seems to be something only operating system companies like Microsoft and Apple can do.

wrong!

There's one more!
Li Minghao suddenly thought of Momo Group.

Momo Group also has an operating system, but it has very few users and keeps a low profile.

"Did Momo Group turn all the internet cafes in China into their botnets? How dare they?" Li Minghao was still somewhat skeptical.

This is fucking insane.

Li Minghao vaguely realized that they seemed to have provoked a group of lunatics.

(End of this chapter)