For hackers active on the dark web, today was undoubtedly an extraordinary day.
Sparked by the "Lunar Hadron Collider symposium being held in Shangjing" and "five billion dollars," the renowned North American hacker organization Eagles of Prey declared war on Hua Nation's internet.
In less than twelve hours, the servers of more than fifty websites had gone down or had their domains hijacked, while more than twenty companies reported losses exceeding five hundred thousand dollars.
Just as the flames of war seemed poised to spread further, and everyone had settled in to watch the spectacle unfold, this smokeless war came to an abrupt end.
Yes, just like that, it abruptly ended.
What was more, several well-known IDs that had once been active in hacker circles went silent. No one knew whether they had gone into hiding or retired, but in any case, they seemed to have vanished from the dark web without a trace.
BOSS in particular.
Even setting aside Eagles of Prey, he was one of the top technical talents in the hacker world. The FBI had spent years trying and failing to find him, which was proof enough of just how formidable he was.
Yet now, he seemed to have been erased from the internet. The trade posts he had listed on the black market received no further replies, his personal tech blog had stopped updating, and his personal forum had simply become "not found."
It was practically a paranormal incident...
On a well-known dark-web forum for technical exchanges within the industry.
Many information security scholars, white hats employed by major internet companies, and black hats who had yet to retire all had anonymous accounts on the forum. From time to time, they exchanged industry news or tested their skills against one another.
Because Eagles of Prey's declaration