After opening the hacking software, Gu Nianzhi first hid her IP as usual, then used "someone else's IP" to return to the original blog. She checked the status and found that the blogger was actually online!
She looked at her watch. It was past 7pm, and the short article had been uploaded just after 6pm.
Was he updating or interacting with his fans at this time?
Gu Nianzhi didn't say anything else and immediately sent him a phishing private message.
The blogger saw the email almost immediately.
Gu Nianzhi's Weibo phishing private message could be disguised as the account of a Weibo member's secretary, saying that there was a problem with the other party's account and asking him to confirm his identity.
The blogger didn't suspect anything and immediately logged into the phishing website in the private message and entered his login account and password.
This was the most labor-saving hacking method, and Gu Nianzhi planned to try it first. If the other party didn't take the bait within five minutes, she would use another method.
In the end, she only waited for three minutes before the other party's account and password were sent to Gu Nianzhi's hacker email.
With the account and password, Gu Nianzhi quickly logged into the other party's Weibo account and downloaded all of his content.
This included private chats and messages with other people, as well as his login IP and login address. They were all recorded.
Then she calmly deleted the phishing private message she had just sent from the other party's private message column, then went to the security center to erase all traces of logging in and quickly logged out.
Then she changed the phishing website's URL so that the other party could no longer find the URL he had just entered his login account and password.
After everything was done, Gu Nianzhi quickly scanned all the data and downloaded it to analyze it. She immediately discovered that the person had a secret transaction with another Weibo account.
Simply put, someone had contacted the blogger who wrote new media articles a few days ago and offered him a large sum of money to write an article.
The outline of the article and the names of the characters were all decided by the other party, and even the follow-up marketing strategy had been discussed.
In order to pretend that the article had become popular naturally, the person had also racked his brains to think of a way.
It was also because they wanted the matter to look like there was no one behind it and that it had become popular naturally, so they had prepared many methods and planned to use them one by one.
Their plan was to make the article become popular in two or three days, so so far, the short article that had been posted for less than an hour hadn't spread yet, and the matter hadn't escalated to the point of no return.
Gu Nianzhi breathed a sigh of relief. She then checked the historical data and found out that before this incident, the blogger only had three fans!
Therefore, the majority of this blogger's 90-odd fans were zombie accounts created by the Internet Water Army company. They were also the accounts that would be used to create the first wave of popularity.
Meanwhile, his essay had already been published. Even the promotional links had been sent to the fake reviewers' accounts and marketing companies.
Only this kind of lousy writer would accept this kind of job, right?
She had gone crazy thinking about fame and money.
Any writer with a little bit of fame who valued their reputation would not do this kind of dirty work that involved taking money to blackmail people.
In the Hua Xia Empire, it was illegal to write pornographic novels.
Gu Nianzhi continued to read their private messages.
The man promised that the writer would not get into trouble with this incident. He said that they had someone backing them up and promised that there would be no legal problems.
Gu Nianzhi's slender fingers tapped on the desk when she saw the words "legal issues." She couldn't help whistling.
You even know about legal issues?
There are experts too?
Gu Nianzhi immediately perked up. She no longer felt tired and was full of fighting spirit.
The original blogger's identity was quickly investigated by Gu Nianzhi. He was just a writer who wanted to be famous. He had just started working full-time at home and wanted to make a big deal …
There was nothing special about it.
The important thing now was to find out who the original blogger's account belonged to.
Gu Nianzhi first followed the person's account to his Weibo.
She discovered that the person's Weibo verification was actually a PR (Public Relations) for a large entertainment company!
He was the one who had sent a private message to the original blogger and clearly asked him to stir up trouble and deliberately write those despicable articles to smear Gu Nianzhi's name and warn Huo Shaoheng.
Gu Nianzhi was no stranger to this entertainment company at all.
When she was investigating Gu Yanran and Tan Dongbang's affair, she had found out that this entertainment company belonged to the Cai family and was managed by Cai Songyin.
Haha, she was definitely going to make a report!
But how could she catch the mastermind so easily?
After Gu Nianzhi saved all his information, she still felt that something was off.
If Cai Songyin really ordered someone to do this, why did she have to be so ruthless?
Didn't she already compromise many times for Tan Guiren's sake just to get close to the Huo family?
But if this short article really spread, Gu Nianzhi wouldn't be the only one who would be hurt. Huo Shaoheng would be the one who would suffer the most.
Thinking about it, a high-ranking general who was on the rise and had a limitless future would definitely be completely ruined by a short article of less than 3,000 words …
Under these circumstances, no matter how greedy Huo Shaoheng was, he wouldn't be with Tan Guiren.
So if this matter was really ordered by Cai Songyin, Gu Nianzhi only had two conclusions.
One was that Cai Songyin was very unwilling to let Tan Guiren and Huo Shaoheng be together. Therefore, she went all out and destroyed Huo Shaoheng's future. Tan Guiren wouldn't be able to be with him even if she wanted to.
The second was that Cai Songyin thought she had already mastered the media to the point where she could summon clouds and rain with a flip of her hand?
First, she smeared Huo Shaoheng to the point where he couldn't be seen, then washed him clean with super strong detergent?
Gu Nianzhi shook her head. Cai Songyin was able to promote Tan Dongbang to the position of Prime Minister, so she wouldn't have such a shallow understanding of the media and public opinion.
The media manipulated the public opinion, but what was the public opinion?
Using an ancient saying, the public opinion was like water. Water could carry a boat, but it could also capsize it.
If one wasn't careful, the boat of friendship would capsize and drown everyone who dared to play with the public opinion.
Therefore, even if Cai Songyin had become arrogant because she had single-handedly promoted Tan Dongbang to the position of Prime Minister, she wouldn't be so arrogant that her IQ would drop to the point of being retarded.
So the second reason probably didn't have anything to do with Cai Songyin.
Gu Nianzhi thought about it carefully and looked at the Weibo account of the entertainment limited company's PR for a while. She suddenly realized that his private messages seemed to be especially clean.
It was so clean that there weren't any clues at all.
That meant that the private messages this person sent to the original blogger were only saved by the original blogger, but he had already deleted them himself.
Not only did he delete the private messages related to the original blogger, but he also deleted all the private messages from his own work.
Did he have to delete them so cleanly?
Gu Nianzhi's heart skipped a beat. She entered the backend server of Weibo again and found the backup data.
This was because the PR could only delete the private message records from his own account, but Weibo's backend server had the records stored.
She scrolled back ten days and saw that this person had indeed deleted all the private message records on Weibo …
As expected of the PR of the entertainment limited company. This Weibo private message record was exploding!
Gu Nianzhi quickly read through it.
Not long after, Gu Nianzhi's eyes narrowed as she realized something was wrong.
On the first day of the new year, a mysterious account had contacted this PR and asked him to find an unrated writer to write a short essay to smear Gu Nianzhi and Huo Shaoheng.
This PR was originally unwilling. After all, the instructions he received were to target Gu Nianzhi's shamelessness, and Huo Shaoheng would appear as a positive person who wouldn't be tempted in the essay.
But the mysterious account gave this PR an offer he couldn't refuse.
This amount of money was so much that this PR could buy out the entertainment limited company he worked for.
It was 300 times his current annual salary of 300,000.
It was this kind of price tag that made the PR (Public Relations) take the risk and go against Cai Songyin's orders. They changed the outline of the short story according to the mysterious person's request to "openly defame Gu Nianzhi and secretly defame Huo Shaoheng." The main point was to make Huo Shaoheng bear this stain and never be able to take another step forward.
Gu Nianzhi followed the clues and set her eyes on the mysterious Weibo account that contacted this PR.
But following the clues of the private message backup data, Gu Nianzhi discovered that the Weibo account had actually been deleted!
The security was so tight. They really wanted to cause trouble …
Gu Nianzhi became braver as she faced setbacks. She had always been the type to become stronger when facing strong opponents and stronger when facing weak opponents.
The harder the task, the more she wanted to try.
Of course, she could even wipe out the intranet of the German Federal Intelligence Service, so how could Weibo, which was full of security holes?
Gu Nianzhi's fingers flew as she typed out a series of commands on her laptop and hacked into Weibo's backend server again.
The last time she had a problem with Weibo's server, she had encountered a similar situation. The account had been deleted.
When a user deleted their account, the server actually didn't delete their account. Instead, it moved the account from being protected by normal security software to the inactive folder.
The inactive folder's security measures were much lower than normal accounts. Just like last time, Gu Nianzhi opened the password testing program and used less than a second to find out the backend login password of this mysterious account.
After the password was cracked, Gu Nianzhi entered the uninhabited land and quickly found all the frozen contents of the deleted account.
She searched in chronological order and quickly found the data records of the day the mysterious account contacted the original Weibo blogger.
The records also included the other party's login IP.
Gu Nianzhi looked at the IP data, and the corners of her eyes twitched.
It was too familiar. It could practically be considered an old friend of Gu Nianzhi's …
Wasn't this the invalid IP that appeared during the video call between Gu Yanran and Tan Dongbang?
Seeing the invalid IP, Gu Nianzhi sighed deeply. She seemed to have expected it, but at the same time, it was unexpected.
It was like the Sword of Damocles hanging over her head was finally going to fall.
After going around in circles, she was back to square one.
There was a path to heaven, but you refused to take it. There was no door to hell, but you insisted on coming.
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This was the first update. It was seven o 'clock at night, and the second update.
Sorry, everyone. The editor informed me of the wrong time. Today is still two updates, and tomorrow will be seven updates.
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