Becoming A Tech Tycoon Begins With Regression novel Chapter 110

Chapter 110: Operation Aurora 2: A Trap

After everything that had gone on the past few weeks, this was the most relaxing time of Amelia’s work life.

Their deal with OmniTech Corp that had brought a lot of unnecessary drama, at least in her opinion, had finally been completed and honestly, this was a decision the board hadn’t regretted, not one bit.

Since they had gotten it just a bit after signing the agreements, they had also gotten Sentinel a bit earlier than the rest of the world, perks of being OmniTech Corp’s partners.

And oh boy did the software deliver on its promises. She was right in trying to convince the board not to try copying the demo, since calling it a watered down version of this one would be an extreme understatement.

Unlike the demo, which only revealed a limited amount exploitation paths, the complete package showed them exactly how compromised their systems were.

One of these compromises was known as PROJECT AURORA.

------two days earlier-------

Amelia sat calmly in her home office carefully going through its features and findings. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

She felt like a kid who had just gotten a new toy as she had been moving her mouse cursor and clicking on relevant tabs of Sentinel’s clean UI.

Amelia had been on it for so long that she hadn’t even realized that she hadn’t even slept the previous night and it was currently 3:53 AM.

The findings were categorized into high, medium and low threats making them easy to navigate and scan through.

Most of the threats found were either low or medium since Sentinel’s demo had already handled most.

These were just the ones that had been in their systems way before sentinel, things that their team had missed.

And since they were already in the systems before Sentinel, it couldn’t prevent them. But it could fix them pretty easily.

All Amelia needed to do was just click the fix button and all these exploit would be a thing of the past, and she was about to when she suddenly paused as she saw a file labeled critical.

According to OmniTech’s COO, Critical threats were threats that could affect every single part of their systems.

It could give admin authority to whoever planted it, and admin access to Google’s systems meant control over Gmail, Google maps, YouTube, Android and more importantly every single data of clients that were being hosted on their systems.

Her eyes narrowed as she hovered the cursor over the entry. Sentinel’s neat UI displayed the tag in sharp red text, pulsing slightly as if to emphasize its importance.

What caught her eyes next was the date that was displayed.

December, 2009!

Her eyes widened in shock as she realized what the date meant.

"What the hell?" Amelia muttered with the frown on her face.

This had been crawling in their systems from late last year? How the hell had her team missed this?

Where was all the genius they boasted of?

The more Sentinel discovered in their systems, the more disappointed in Google’s programming team she became.

This was the fourth zero day discovered in their systems now and they had completely missed it.

She clicked open the folder and the details unfolded before her eyes.

Entry Point: an advanced spear-phishing attack that had bypassed Google’s internal filters.

Payload: custom malware capable of escalating privileges, moving laterally, and exfiltrating sensitive data undetected.

Targets: Gmail accounts belonging to Chinese human rights activists, alongside high-value corporate executives.

Amelia rubbed her temples in exhaustion. This was a f*cking free access key for whoever planted it to enter and leave as they pleased and Google would have no idea that they did.

That fifty million annual fee was looking a lot cheaper right now, especially compared to what she just discovered.

She was about to click the [Fix] button when she paused as an idea came to her, navigating Sentinel’s interface, she clicked on the support section and immediately started chat with the AI integrated within.

{Welcome to Sentinel’s AI assistant, what would you like help with today?}

The text appeared as soon as he opened the chat section and she started typing, "is there a way Sentinel can isolate a threat while letting the attacker still think they’re in the systems while I feed them information I want to?"

Her goal was not just to stop the hack, but unmask who was behind it, since Elder wood as the file was named, has been notorious in the tech world for getting away with their hacks.

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