I am weak and friendly

Chapter 136 You are clearly trying to harm me!
In the afternoon, Chen Yanxing had lunch with the old man, took a nice nap, and then sat down at his computer to start working.

Chen Yanxing may seem like he's idle all day, but in reality, he does need to work.

Otherwise, where did he get his eight-figure bank account?
He not only has a job, but he also has quite a few clients. However, since the old man's current condition, he has basically pushed the work that requires traveling around to his colleagues, and he works almost entirely remotely.

Today, one of our clients' servers was hacked, and he needs to take action.

He contacted the other party's technical staff remotely, then connected to the server, and began running various diagnostic tools and analyzing the logs.

In fact, everyone sees the same thing on the computer – the same data. Some people can analyze the patterns, while others can't.

Sometimes it's the difference in tools, but more often it's experience and talent.

Without a doubt, Chen Yanxing possesses top-tier talent in this field, inherited from his grandfather, who was also a prominent figure in his industry before his stroke.

But this time, he felt something was off.

This doesn't resemble a typical hacking incident.

To be honest, I've been in this line of work for so long, and I've sent dozens of people in. Sometimes, when I connect to the other party's server and take a few more glances, I can sense something.

That's a flavor.

Hackers from different backgrounds have different characteristics.

Russian hackers are completely different from the public's impression. They possess exceptional low-level skills and excel at fileless attacks, making them practically high-flying assassins. American attacks are simply and directly showcasing their arsenal, with a plethora of tools at their disposal. Meanwhile, their domestic counterparts, for some reason, always have a hint of cunning, always trying to be more subtle. Several times, Chen Yanxing has used this "extra" bit of cunning to successfully target their enemies. And then there's the smell of poverty from their neighbors, desperate for money, like ransomware, directly after cash…

However, this time it didn't have that usual hacker vibe; instead, it had a peculiar feel to it.

How can I describe this taste?
Very...naive?
It doesn't look like an attack.

It was just like a regular visit.

Nothing that should have been covered up was covered up; the traces were very obvious.

They ended up doing things they were capable of doing but weren't.

This guy, does he not even have basic offensive and defensive experience?

However, when he traced the attacker's access path, he only found the laptop, and then it vanished without a trace.

It's as if the attack came from right inside this laptop.

Was this an internal attack?

Or it could just be an internal failure or error; he'd seen this kind of blunder more than once.

What really happened?
Moreover, for some inexplicable reason, he had a sense of familiarity.

This familiar feeling made his heart flutter for no reason.

What happened? What exactly happened?

In fact, Chen Yanxing has always been a person with a strong sense of professional ethics.

Inspections are inspections, scans are scans, but I absolutely won't look at things I shouldn't see, and I won't touch things I shouldn't touch. After the inspection, I'll delete what needs to be deleted and forget what needs to be forgotten. No customer can get information about another customer from me.

Therefore, he has a very good reputation and many customers.

But this time...

The feeling of familiarity was so strong that he couldn't help but take a look.

Just a glance.

Then he saw code with a very familiar style.

This completely incomprehensible special language and the utterly chaotic yet brilliantly ingenious translation code were practically smearing a name on his face.

Seriously, are you going to hide it or not?!
How did this company offend a powerful figure?
You guys sent me to catch the big boss...

"Damn it, you guys are clearly trying to get me into trouble!"

I can't make that kind of money!
The thought of the boss's all-encompassing methods made Chen Yanxing tremble with fear.

He decided to quickly and slip out now, and then...

Then clean up the obvious traces you see.
Wait a minute, with a skill level like that, how could they possibly leave traces that they could easily clean up? This must have been left on purpose!
See, the way the big shots hack into laptops is completely undetectable to them.

So, this must have been left behind by the big shot on purpose!
Chen Yanxing carefully cleaned up the traces of his entry and was about to leave when a thought suddenly popped into his head.

"Wait, what's the big shot trying to do by hacking into this server?"

They say curiosity killed the cat, and once this idea popped into Chen Yanxing's head, he couldn't hold back any longer.

The big boss probably left something else here. If I go in, it will explode, and then I'm done for!

Or if the big boss finds out I sneaked in, wouldn't he kill me?
Wait, what am I afraid of?
I've already been favored by a big shot three times.

Men aren't afraid of getting pregnant, so what's there to be afraid of being taken advantage of?

Thinking this, Chen Yanxing turned around and went to unplug his backup hard drive, seal it, and lock it in the safe.

Come on, boss, have your way with me!

With that in mind, Chen Yanxing quietly infiltrated the server.

Nothing happened.

At least Chen Yanxing felt that nothing had happened.

He can't understand the expert's code, but he can understand the log files and the original author's code.

It's very strong, but not ridiculously strong.

As he looked at it, he felt a strange sense of unease.

Wait, could this be the thing that the big shot once asked him, written by that big shot named LuoHan?
What exactly does this algorithm do?

Something feels... off.

As he watched, cold sweat broke out on his back.

He felt as if he had discovered something extraordinary.

Of course, he quickly calmed himself down. As a cybersecurity expert, he often comes into contact with things that ordinary people would never know.

But after watching for a short while, he felt a chill run down his spine again.

He saw a familiar name in a deeply hidden log file.

At number 17, Chen Jiande.

His father's name.

……

"I'm sorry, I didn't find any obvious signs of intrusion. Either the other party is very capable, or there was no intrusion at all." That evening, he submitted a report to his client, which included his log analysis and other details. Of course, he knew that most clients wouldn't understand this stuff at all, but these fancy details would make his words seem more authoritative.

"But what's wrong with our server?"

"It's possible that there's a bug in the server's program itself."

"Could you help us fix it?"

"Sorry, this is not within my area of ​​expertise. Please find someone else."

If you can find someone who dares to work on the code of top-tier developers.

Anyone who sees this code will probably understand it.

Then he urged, "Oh, right, settle the final payment."

He had already activated the tracking tools as soon as the other party's funds came in.

Holy crap, I fucking...

Chen Yanxing gritted his teeth, forcing himself not to swear, and pounded his hands heavily on the keyboard.

For a time, he felt particularly unfortunate.

But now he suddenly realizes that this is not misfortune.

(End of this chapter)