The dark web.
An obscure hacker forum.
A moderator had created a discussion group called "Eagles of Prey" in the technical exchange section. A crowd of IDs wearing aliases flooded in, and before long, they were chatting and bragging away.
But the idle chatter did not last long.
As soon as an ID named "BOSS" entered the group, everyone tacitly ended their small talk, and the discussion group fell silent in an instant.
BOSS: "Is everyone here?"
Hunter: "Everyone's here."
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BOSS: "Good. Let's begin the war meeting."
Lone Wolf: "Received!"
Vulture: "Received!"
"..."
For hackers active in the virtual world, gathering so many top experts together to accomplish something major was no easy task.
Although they belonged to the same hacker organization called "Eagles of Prey," such an organization did not actually exert much restraint over its members.
For one thing, these people were used to being undisciplined and did not like being constrained. For another, quite a few of them had dirty hands and were even carrying several cases on their backs, so they were unwilling to show their faces under their real identities.
Other than occasionally logging onto BBS forums to exchange technical knowledge and conduct black-market trades, they spent most of their time lurking or minding their own business. Some even had other aliases in other hacker organizations.
But if anyone in the circle saw these IDs, they would surely draw a sharp breath.
Aside from BOSS, who was hidden behind an alias and impossible to identify, every other ID belonged to a major figure on the dark web. Some of them were names that made professionals in the information security industry pale at the mention.
Still, although BOSS's identity was difficult to guess, seeing how respectfully these