The CIA's Langley headquarters and the Pentagon, two departments of such magnitude, had been attacked. Despite the gag order issued afterward, the news still leaked out.
Fortunately, the matter involving the Ant Army Group had drawn most of the attention, and with their efforts to downplay it, the public backlash was limited.
Inside the CIA conference room.
In order to find clues about this hacker attack, members of the CIA CCI, the COG, and the Office of Cybersecurity had all gathered in the conference room.
"We haven't found any useful leads. Their methods were highly sophisticated, like a ghost."
Dennis felt his confidence had suffered an unprecedented blow.
He had once participated in a series of denial-of-service attacks that had shut down thousands of internet sites. He had even planned unauthorized access attacks against the computer systems of the US Air Force and US Army.
Only after being caught by the CIA had he chosen to join them.
He had considered himself a god-tier computer expert, but before this mysterious hacker, he felt like an infant.
Their computer firewall monitoring had been utterly useless.
It was more like the other side was launching a dimensionality-reduction strike against them.
"We found nothing on our end either." Morrison spoke reluctantly. "We investigated every top hacker in the world that we could investigate. We even asked several white-hat hackers to help, but we still found nothing."
The feeling was much the same as when he had first tracked the Joker Organization. It left him utterly powerless.
They knew all the world's top hackers, including the rising talents who had emerged in recent years after the rise of Intelligent Viruses. The CIA even had complete files on them.
But none of them had ever given him such a feeling of helplessness.
The conference room