OffByNone was awoken by the impact of their face on their keyboard. [color=Plum]WHOWHAWHATWOAH![/color] After taking a few moments to restart their heart, OffByNone looked at their computer screen in a foggy attempt to recall what was running. [color=Plum]Let's see... I was— Uh...[/color] After the fogginess cleared from OBN's eyes, they fixed upon the small frame of two characters in the terminal window. OBN's blood pressure could have set a Guinness World Record for medical miracles, as there laid two symbols that invalidated all of the work from the previous night. [color=39b54a]^C[/color] The scream that ensued was definitely loud enough to wake the surrounding apartments, but OBN couldn't care less. Accidentally killing the DomainBuster process effectively meant that the brute-force had to restart completely, giving Gung Memorial's Incident Response team even more of a chance to pick up on the abnormal login attempts, and more importantly, for intelligence agencies to monitor the traffic patterns. OBN frantically searched for a restore file anywhere in Kali. There wasn't one. For a split second, OBN contemplated analyzing the system memory to find where the process left off—that is, before they realized one pertinent detail. [color=Plum]Oh right... I have no idea how to do memory analysis.[/color] Frustrated, OBN hopped onto their favorite IRC to complain to a captive audience. [hider=#DragonScythe1339] [b][color=Plum]OffByNone[/color] [sup]today at 2:22 AM[/sup][/b] RICKLE RACKLE HABITAT FOR PERSONS INCARCERATED AHGGGHGHHGFSUOHOUHGFSBOBJSLNGFDpkjongrdfs'ouIZGFbowasuOHRJF":UJOIFG"UBJN'pvodsFN [b][color=Turquoise]Symptem[/color] [sup]today at 2:22 PM[/sup][/b] lol u aright? [b][color=LightCoral]ReduxJSReact[/color] [sup]today at 2:23 PM[/sup][/b] Woah man everything alright? [b][color=Plum]OffByNone[/color] [sup]today at 2:33 PM[/sup][/b] SHTICKLE SHTACKLE HULLABOO GHREEDY GHIDRA HEGT I i'm not okay riught noww [b][color=LightCoral]ReduxJSReact[/color] [sup]today at 2:24 PM[/sup][/b] You sound like someone killed your mother or something. [b][color=Turquoise]Symptem[/color] [sup]today at 2:25 PM[/sup][/b] Yeah man, take a chill pill [b][color=Plum]OffByNone[/color] [sup]today at 2:27 PM[/sup][/b] I ACCIDENTALLY EXITED MY DOMAIN CRED BRUTEFORCE tHAT WAS RUNING FOR LIKE 18 HOURS NO I VCANMOT CHILL RIGHT NOW [b][color=LightCoral]ReduxJSReact[/color] [sup]today at 2:27 PM[/sup][/b] Big oof man. That's an L [b][color=Turquoise]Symptem[/color] [sup]today at 2:27 PM[/sup][/b] Sounds like you need to change your name to OofByNone [b][color=Plum]OffByNone[/color] [sup]today at 2:29 PM[/sup][/b] Shut up i just want to die right now [b][color=Turquoise]Symptem[/color] [sup]today at 2:29 PM[/sup][/b] do it [b][color=LightCoral]ReduxJSReact[/color] [sup]today at 2:29 PM[/sup][/b] do it [b][color=Plum]OffByNone[/color] [sup]today at 2:31 PM[/sup][/b] Whatever. I'm going to go get drunk and cry now. [b][color=Turquoise]Symptem[/color] [sup]today at 2:29 PM[/sup][/b] lol have fun man. [b]OffByNone has left the chat.[/b] [/hider] OffByNone rolled their chair back and glanced at the lonely bottle of Dos Equis that had sitting on their shelf for the past six years. OBN had bought it the day after their 21[sup]st[/sup] but never worked up the nerve to actually open it. Frankly, OBN was terrified of the prospect that they would eventually find the courage to finally drink it—whatever it was, that day would not be a good one. OBN turned back around and looked at the computer screen. [hider=The Offender] [img]https://i.imgur.com/MTYMruo.png[/img] [/hider] [color=Plum]Okay, let's try this stupid whatever again.[/color] OBN hopped onto Brave to pull the scripts off of their private Command and Control server on the TOR network. A few menu clicks and a "New private window with Tor" was all it took to reach the confidential website. Upon accessing the main sitefront, OBN immediately realized that something was majorly wrong. And while the bruteforce failure had been frustrating, the sight of the new homepage of OffByNil nearly made OBN throw up. [hider=This Site Has Been Seized] [img]https://i.imgur.com/oTF4piA.png[/img] [/hider] No oxygen. OffbyNone couldn't breathe. Not a single one of their sites had ever been seized by any agency before, and the U.S. government of all places? And for hacking content? Did the U.S. even [i]do[/i] that? And what was that about some kind of Striker Core company at the bottom? It was lazily plastered at the bottom of the HTML and not even added into the image itself; they clearly didn't put a lot of effort into that notice. OBN glanced again at the Dos Equis, but decided that finding out who Striker Core is was far more important than forgetting the past 24 hours. A quick Google search revealed them to be a relatively new security organization partnering with various companies and government agencies to deliver targeted strikes against illegal and unethical content. Wait. Logs... Logs! OffByNone had the logs synced with that of another C&C server; they should reveal exactly who took down their server and when. And the logs unveiled that there was... a new email to root? [color=39b54a][None@trolstationC2 ~]$ cat /var/spool/mail/root [/color] [color=AAAAAA]From: GlitchIndex@striker.core Thursday Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thurs, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 1970 GMT From: Glitch Index To: root@lolstationC2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Hi OffByNone Message Body: Hi there OffByNone. I don't know if you're reading this (it'd be kind of tough since my buddies at the FBI took your site, but maybe you'll find a way), but if you are, I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed browsing your site and that we're definitely going to get you arrested if you keep this up. Great content; consider joining us on the white hat side of things! Don't email me though-I'd have to report you lol. Hope you didn't lose any important scripts, but it's on you for not backing things up. Anywho, just wanted to drop in and hope I didn't waste my time sending you this! Next time make hacking this bad boy more of a challenge. GG and no re. ~With love from Glitch Index <3[/color] [color=39b54a] [None@trolstationC2 ~]$ [/color] OffByNone's face looked as white as the stomach of a penguin. [color=Plum]...I'm calling it a day.[/color] OBN restarted the bruteforce, called their mother, and went back to bed.