Chapter 65
Chapter 65
Black-Haired Investor Awakened as a Superhuman - Episode 065
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An unimaginable madness.
The Huntington Family mobilized British soldiers to kidnap an American citizen on American soil.
Devoid of any logic or reason, it was pure madness.
If the fate of the entire nation of Britain hinged on me, I might have been able to understand it.
But it was all because he lost money.
Really.
That meant that his mental state had long lost its ability to make normal judgments.
Everything I had seen.
Even including all the fiction worlds, including movies, novels, and game stories, I can confidently say that there is nothing more insane than this.
Even creations that deal with extreme settings usually try to maintain some logic or context. But this absurd reality doesn't seem to need to.
I can't understand how such a person can exist.
Legal action against such a person?
Financial attack?
International exposure?
Would any of that work?
Not at all. The four captives were, at worst, bargaining chips for the British government.
They couldn't be the decisive card to stop that psycho.
In the end, there was only one way to stop him.
'To end his life.'
I was determined.
* * *
No additional tailing was detected on the way home.
My eyes naturally went to the back of the kitchen area.
I had hidden a duffel bag full of guns above the ceiling of the small storage room inside.
It was a space that was revealed when the wooden panel was pushed up, but fortunately, there was no need to take it out for the time being.
But you never know.
Because he's an unpredictable madman, he might send another strike force.
As soon as I got in, I sat down in front of the monitor. My heart sank even colder. This time, I wasn't sitting down to participate in a game of winning and losing money.
Soon the monitor screen lit up.
I opened the folder containing the information I had gathered on him.
This was full of missing persons cases that he was strongly suspected of being involved in. There was a separate folder containing cases similar to mine among the many.
Click!―
「 First File (Elliot Jones.pdf)
Eurozone Debt Crisis Event.
In the summer of 2015, the Eurozone bond market was shaken by the Greek debt crisis.
As the value of Greek bonds plummeted, Elliot Jones, a bond trader at The City, went missing.
He was an investor who had taken a long position, expecting the recovery of Greek bonds.
* Kyle Huntington took a short position betting on the decline of Greek bonds and suffered a large loss. 」
「 Second File (Zhang Weilong.pdf)
Brexit Confusion Event.
On June 23, 2016, the pound sterling plummeted to a 30-year low due to the Brexit referendum result, and the financial market was shaken.
In the meantime, Zhang Weilong, a Hedge Fund manager from Hong Kong, went missing.
He was an investor who had taken a long position on the pound sterling, betting against Brexit.
* Kyle Huntington took a short position betting on the decline of the pound sterling and suffered a large loss. 」
「 Third File (Sophia Liu.pdf)
Chinese Stock Market Crash Event.
In October 2018, the Chinese stock market plummeted due to the aftermath of the US-China trade war.
The Shanghai Composite Index fell by more than 20%, shocking global investors. In the meantime, Sophia Liu, a stock trader from Singapore, went missing.
She was an investor who had taken a long position, betting on the rebound of Chinese stocks.
* Kyle Huntington took a short position betting on the failure of the rebound and suffered a large loss. 」
"Shorting bastard..."
The incident in the fourth file happened last year.
It was when the global bond market was shaken as the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank cut interest rates.
And today, I could have been the protagonist of the fifth file.
The funny thing here is.
Kyle, that crazy bastard, realized his past mistakes and this time escaped from being a shorter and took a long position in crude oil.
And that, rather, came back as the biggest disaster among the losses he had ever experienced.
In fact, one of his Family Offices that was in charge of that position went bankrupt. I couldn't predict anything else about him, but I knew this one thing.
He's a guy who kidnaps and murders people like eating rice, regardless of nationality.
That kind of guy has a great deal of malice towards me.
How resentfully did the players in the winning position die?
'To be wrongly targeted by a psycho...'
To comfort the players who died at his hands, it wouldn't be enough to return it in the same way.
But realistically, his death should only be remembered as the tragedy of a poor British aristocrat.
'That's the only way his death won't dig into our mother and son's daily lives.'
I just hoped that this crazy situation would be resolved quickly.
I locked up my extravagant emotions and started working.
All I needed was a small router. A device that would hide my activities in the internet world along with the Tor Network.
Click. Click. Click! —
* * *
[ WARNING:
UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS DETECTED ]
Look at this?
All of his system packets were encrypted with AES-256.
Overall, the Intrusion Detection System (IDS) was excellent.
It even immediately updated the firewall rules in response to my exploration.
That meant that a professional cybersecurity team was backing him.
The skill level surpassed a simple company level. Official, national agency level.
'Life must be so easy for this psycho.'
It was almost impossible to break through his defenses from this position.
There would be nothing easier than if he was tricked by the phishing email I sent and opened the Malware there with his own hands.
But that was a method I had tried a few days ago and failed beautifully.
If national agency-level officials put their minds to it, tracking this side down would eventually be a matter of time.
So I put a lot of effort into changing the log traces.
It was like stirring up a hornet's nest for no reason, but it didn't matter.
His system.
In other words, the security network used by the Huntington Family had traces of all sorts of attackers besides me.
It could be China, it could be Russia, or it could even be a NATO ally who stabbed him in the back.
Anyway, touching a network where national-level cyber warfare was taking place was definitely a dangerous thing.
If the security is this thorough, the smart home side is the same.
I changed the direction to the next scenario, poisoning.
'There's no way a noble like him would only trust public healthcare services.'
Crackle!–
Information from British private insurance companies poured into my mind.
Among them, three with high possibilities.
『 Vitality Health 』
Vitality is focused on health programs.
There's no way a naturally wealthy guy like that crazy bastard would be tempted by health club membership discounts. Pass.
『 Aviva 』
Aviva is practical, but it's a place that guys like him would hate.
The general strength of booking specialist appointments within 3 days would be chilling to him. Pass.
『 Bupa 』
This is different.
A dedicated manager is assigned.
It provides private client services that connect you directly to the best hospitals in London.
'This is the most likely.'
[https://www.bupa.com.au/]
I immediately accessed Bupa's website and checked the employee list.
The top executives would have received security training. My goal was this side from the beginning.
A young female employee named Ibi in the claims processing team caught my eye.
Due to the nature of the claims processing team, she would have no choice but to keep an eye on her inbox, and it would be an emergency because of Corona.
It was time to move on to LinkedIn.
I put in the name and searched. Dozens of accounts with the same name poured out.
I compared the profile pictures and eliminated them.
And I quickly found it.
She had used LinkedIn to find a new job at Bupa after retiring from Exa Insurance three years ago.
As always, her Facebook ID was linked to her profile.
Of course, many of Ibi's personal lives were revealed on her Facebook.
Friendships, fashion, hot places.
Among them, the most useful material in the current situation was this.
'A post written on June 28, 2017.'
She was holding Adele concert tickets in front of Wembley Stadium, and the caption even included the lyrics of Adele's song, "Hello."
After that, I was able to confirm information that she was waiting for Adele's concert in several posts.
There hasn't been an Adele concert for three years, and this year is even more hopeless due to the Corona situation.
There was no better material than this.
I immediately started creating a phishing email.
[ Subject: Glastonbury Festival, revived in virtual reality! Join Adele.
The world's largest music festival, *Glastonbury Festival*, which had been suspended due to Corona 19, has finally returned.
This year, it will be held as a special virtual reality concert, giving you the opportunity to enjoy the vivid stage from home.
The festival's headliners are made up of legendary artists.
• Paul McCartney
• Kendrick Lamar
• Taylor Swift
• Adele
You can't miss this historic performance, can you?
Apply for free tickets by filling out the form below and experience a special moment in virtual reality.
* Tickets are provided on a first-come, first-served basis, and applications will close when tickets are sold out. Hurry!
Glastonbury Festival Operations Team
Application and Inquiries: [email protected]
Attachment: Application.docx ]
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Bupa's claims processing team.
It had been over a month since the lockdown was imposed, but there was no improvement.
The phone rang constantly that day as well. The inbox was overflowing with unprocessed emails.
Ibi adjusted her headset and answered another call.
"This is the claims processing team. How can I help you?"
It was an inquiry that was repeated dozens of times a day, asking if the cost of the Corona test was included in the insurance.
"Yes, ma'am, the cost of the Corona test varies depending on the insurance policy, so I will check the contract number and let you know."
I could already hear a dissatisfied sigh from the customer on the other end of the phone.
But Ibi had already become accustomed to it.
While answering the same questions like a parrot, she didn't take her eyes off her inbox. There were emails that had to be processed even in the midst of her hectic schedule.
Urgent claim documents sent directly by customers. Emails from superiors with immediately check required marks.
And the latest guidelines updating the scope of Corona-related coverage, etc.
In the meantime, a new email suddenly came in.
'Huh?'
The title was 'Glastonbury Festival, revived in virtual reality! Join Adele'.
It was an email unrelated to work, but Ibi's eyes and hands naturally stopped the moment she saw it.
"Just a moment, ma'am. I'll be right back."
Ibi pressed the mute button on her headset and checked the email.
A stuffy office.
Endless phone calls and emails.
The invitation to escape from the shackles of that stress was contained in the email that had just arrived.
'Virtual reality festival? All sorts of things are happening because of Corona.'
Ibi scoffed slightly at her tired mind, but that was only for a moment.
It was Adele after many years.
Moreover, all the other headliners were world-renowned pop stars.
'It's first-come, first-served? I'll go crazy if I miss this too.'
Ibi downloaded the application file attached to the email. There was no hesitation in it.
It was after she downloaded and ran the application file.
Ibi suddenly felt that her computer was stuttering. The screen flickered rapidly. The response was a beat late even when she pressed the keyboard.
'What, it's slow again. Junk.'
Ibi grumbled and moved the mouse. The cursor speed was fine.
When she typed again, the slow response from before had disappeared.
'It's always like this once in a while. I need to ask them to replace it.'
Ibi dismissed it as nothing.
But without Ibi knowing.
Two codes were activated simultaneously by the one action of clicking the application file.
The first was Malware that infiltrated the company network.
The second was a cleaning code. This code, designed by Hyun-woo, was designed to erase the traces of Ibi running the malicious hacking code.
Ibi's computer IP was instantly covered with a fake proxy chain, and the operating system's execution logs began to be erased in real time.
At the same time.
Bupa's customer database and sensitive insurance information were also leaking out.
Right to Hyun-woo.