"At this time?!" Xu Meng was somewhat surprised.
Ever since Xu Meng took out the somatosensory synchronization suit, the attacks on the Dream Building server had never stopped.
But with the network security team and Xiao Meng constantly monitoring, there hadn't been any major incidents.
Especially after Xiao Meng completed her coursework in the field of network security, the Dream Building server had never encountered any decent threats again.
After the opponents realized that doing so was futile, the intensity and frequency of malicious attacks on the server greatly decreased.
To the point that Xu Meng was too lazy to pay attention to this aspect of things.
It had somewhat reached a "I'm invincible, do whatever you want" mentality.
Xiao Meng also hadn't seriously reported server attacks to him like this in a long time.
But as Xiao Meng told him that the other party wasn't using any high-end intrusion techniques, but rather a simple and unadorned DDoS attack, he immediately had some realization—
For Dream Building's opponents, now was indeed the best time!
Now was Dream Building's most commercially successful moment.
—The newly launched holographic devices were swept away, and the new game's release was a smash hit, reaping both sales and critical acclaim.
But it was also the moment when the Dream Building server was under the greatest pressure.
—Millions of players poured into the new game, plus the players of the old games and Sprawling Metropolis, the player online data was creating new peaks every moment, and the server load was constantly approaching its limit.
Indeed, there was no moment more suitable for launching an attack than now!
The traffic from normal players already occupied a large amount of bandwidth and server resources.
The malicious traffic of a DDoS attack would further squeeze the remaining resources, causing the server to reach its limit faster, and players' legitimate requests would not be able to be answered.
The expandable resource quota of the cloud server would also be quickly exhausted, not only invalidating the automatic expansion mechanism, but also leading to a surge in costs.
The TCP connection pool had also been exhausted under the flood attack, and new players were no longer able to log in.
Complaints began to emerge in Meng Jin and on social networks.
Xiao Meng was very powerful.
But no matter how powerful she was, she needed enough server resources to发挥出来.
Unfortunately, what Dream Building lacked the most right now was this.
Xu Meng couldn't help but frown: "It would be great if we could wait another month."
If they could wait another month, Dream Building's large server center located in Qian Prefecture could be officially completed.
"Let the security department contact the three cooperative cloud server providers, we need a higher expansion quota, we'll take as much as they can give us."
This was drinking poison to quench thirst, equivalent to using a lot of money and some favors to buy time.
But Xu Meng needed this time.
"It's not my style to just take a beating without fighting back."
"The one launching the attack on us now should be New Force, right?"
Xu Meng's first reaction was that New Force Interactive Entertainment was jumping over the wall in desperation.
The failure of "Wolf of Fear" caused New Force to suffer serious losses again—not only losing money, but also losing player reputation.
In addition, successive failures of big productions and the lack of a flagship work led to a continuous decrease in active users, and主机sales also shrank along with it.
Market share had already taken a downward turn.
Suffering such heavy losses, it was reasonable to jump over the wall in desperation and try to mess with Dream Building.
If they could steal Dream Building's core technology, that would be a big profit!
"I don't know, Xiao Meng can't spare any effort right now."
She was no longer as active as usual, no longer adding special effects to herself, and her emotions were also a little low.
Obviously, she was also starting to conserve server resources.
"First, shut down all the intelligent office assistants in the company and take over all server resources."
"Sprawling Metropolis will be temporarily taken offline."
So, in Dream Building Company, the employees' intelligent office assistants fell silent and stopped answering questions.
Then, one by one, they disappeared.
This caused panic among many employees, and daily work almost stopped instantly.
Nearly ten million users of Sprawling Metropolis simultaneously received a system notification—
[Due to Dream Building's server encountering a large number of network attacks, for the security of your account and data, Sprawling Metropolis will be temporarily closed.]
[It will be back online as soon as the problem is resolved, please wait patiently.]
Fire Knife held Siri's steel sword in one hand and a bag of snacks in the other, looking blankly at the system prompt that suddenly appeared in front of him.
Before he could think about what was going on, the 10-second countdown for the server shutdown popped up.
On the streets of Sprawling Metropolis, all users stopped and talked about it.
......
After paying these prices, Xiao Meng's pupils flashed with pink code again, and a eager expression appeared on her face.
"Don't rush to counterattack."
Xu Meng pressed her little head, letting her be calm and not impatient, "First chase over and see if it's really New Force."
"Understood!" Xiao Meng replied crisply.
Then she began to go all out.
Massive resources were mobilized, passing over one springboard after another, tracing the IP of the attacker in reverse.
In the world of the network, the flowing light of data went upstream along the threads of one code after another, lighting up one node after another.
Xiao Meng didn't destroy those nodes, cutting off the attack on Dream Building, but silently went up and forward all the way…
Breaking through layers of disguise, passing over one springboard after another.
Until she caught the source IP address of the attack.
Then, she launched a reverse attack, digging three feet into the ground, analyzing the identity of the attacker and the reason for launching the attack.
Before long, the pink streamer in Xiao Meng's pupils gradually dimmed.
She looked at Xu Meng: "Found it."
"Is it New Force?"
"Yes, but not only."
Xiao Meng answered him.
"Not only??" Xu Meng was a little surprised.
"Yes!" Xiao Meng was very sure.
"Xiao Meng found seventeen different originating points of attack. After secretly controlling their computers, she scrubbed the data inside, discovering at least eight different organizations simultaneously launching attacks against us."
"Not only Xinli, but also Aetheris Technologies, Avalon Networks, VaultChain, Cloud Foundry..."
Xiao Meng rattled off the names of seven globally renowned technology and internet giants in one breath.
Their business areas cover e-commerce, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, social networks, artificial intelligence, computer communications, and more.
Among them, five are large multinational corporations from the United States.
This long string of names left Xu Meng dumbfounded.
Did I assassinate the President of the United States? ??
Do you need such a large formation to come to the rescue? ??
Soon, he discovered a blind spot—
"Wait, that's only seven names. You said there are eight forces attacking us. What about the other one?"
Xiao Meng looked at Xu Meng, frowning as she replied, "Xiao Meng didn't find direct evidence, but there is some circumstantial evidence to prove that the organization launching the cyber attack has a vested interest with the US Central Intelligence Agency."
Xu Meng's furrowed brow suddenly relaxed.
Alright! So it wasn't me assassinating them, but them 'assassinating' me!
The reason for the attack doesn't need much thought.
—Mostly still aimed at the holographic display technology.
And perhaps AI as well.
Zhumeng's AI technology is very strong. Previously, it was just a small-scale speculation, but the appearance of the [Mind Cube] has confirmed this speculation.
Now it's no longer a secret.
Those big companies may not all have been authorized by the federal government to launch the attack, but they are definitely salivating over Zhumeng's technology!
Standing with these big shots, Xinli even seems a bit out of place.
And therefore...
Especially easy to bully!
"Master, decide quickly! We can't wait any longer!"
With the world's top-ranked technology and internet giants, plus the federal government launching an offensive at the same time, the intensity is truly terrifying.
Even if Xu Meng made a painful decision, cutting off 10 million Sprout Metropolis users, the freed-up server resources would only last for a little while longer.
Of course, this is related to Xu Meng not letting Xiao Meng fully defend.
Now, Xu Meng still doesn't plan to fully defend.
Thinking about those game studios that played dirty tricks and ended up being bankrupted by Xu Meng, you should know—Xu Meng is not a good-tempered master.
Who says that when attacked, you can only defend?
Defend my ass, let's have a head-on confrontation!
As long as the opponent explodes before me, the problem will naturally be solved!
"Snatch all the botnets they are using, snatch as many as you can. Along with the computing power we just leased from the cloud service provider, form a zombie network and launch a reverse DDoS attack against them!"
"Prioritize Xinli Interactive Entertainment's servers."
"Vulnerability scanning, password cracking, you're more familiar with these than I am, do it all."
"Remember to cover it up, bypass the cloud service provider's traffic detection, and don't let our partners take the blame."
"Throw out more botnets as smoke screens and scapegoats."
"Xinli's servers should have the game accounts and cloud archives of all North American players."
Speaking of this, Xu Meng hesitated for a moment.
But he also knew that now was not the time to hesitate.
Every minute and every second, Zhumeng is bearing the cost of being attacked.
Not only financial losses, but also the problems with the servers, and the temporarily closed Sprout Metropolis, all seriously damage Zhumeng's reputation.
Thinking of this, he finally hardened his heart:
"Find them, delete them!"
As for Xinli...
Want to steal my technical data?
Okay!
But I hope you are also prepared to bear the consequences.
At the moment Xu Meng gave authorization, the "legal lock" that had been restricting Xiao Meng was temporarily lifted.
In Xu Meng's office, a huge holographic image emerged.
On a dynamic network that was infinitely complex, constantly changing, and whose full appearance was completely impossible to capture with the naked eye, a golden spot lit up.
The binary world set off an invisible huge wave.
The golden light spot spread rapidly along hundreds of thousands of threads, instantly weaving a huge golden spider web.
The spider web extended at the speed of light, lighting up one node after another.
The lit nodes were immediately co-opted.
The threads originally pointing to the golden light spot broke, and brand new golden threads probed out, all extending in the same direction—
That was Xinli Interactive Entertainment's server IP address.
In just a moment, that address was surrounded by a golden net.
The golden threads transmitted the flowing light of data, launching a continuous bombardment.
In between, there were also hidden streamers of light, which fell on the firewall, penetrating layer by layer, and soon seeped into the interior of the server.
In the office, a satisfied smile suddenly bloomed on Xiao Meng's face.
"Found them!"
"Very good." Xu Meng nodded, ruthlessly issuing the final verdict to Xinli—
"Clear them all."
Xu Meng's expression was rarely serious.
Zhumeng doesn't use network attacks, never because we can't do it.
But because I don't like to be the first to break the rules.
But if you are the first to be unreasonable and ignore the rules…
Then I don't mind letting you see my methods!
Now—
Say goodbye to your database!!
