Blackhat
1
An accident has been reported
at Chai Wan Nuclear Power Station.
Hathaway. Cell search. Hands behind you.
Open 16.
Go, go, go!
Search everything.
- Get off that!
- Hey!
Take him down!
One, two, three, up!
Stay strong, carnal.
This was found in your cell.
You added $900 to all your pals'
commissary accounts
in your cell block.
Is this the attack tool?
With it, you open up a terminal
and that gives you a command line?
That how you broke into the network
and plussed-up the balances?
No.
I used it to call Santa
in the North Pole
and told him to do
Christmas early this year.
What do we know about this guy?
His grandfather was a military commander
in Shanghai in the '20s,
in the '30s against the Japanese
through the Civil War.
His father became China's Undersecretary
for Trade to the UN.
He came with to New York.
Bronx High School of Science, MIT.
His sister's a network engineer
in the private sector.
She grow up in New York, too?
No.
He's a rising star in PLA's
Cyber Defense section.
Liaise with them?
It's inviting them
into the henhouse, Carol.
Stanley, we go head-to-head
with the Chinese
every day of the week.
Not a bad idea to be face-to-face
working with them, for once.
You monitor very closely what they do
and do not have access to.
Okay?
Okay? Send the code.
Okay.
- Let's go somewhere we can talk.
- Hey, hey...
English might be better. Come on.
- Tomorrow? I can't. It's impossible.
- Why not?
I've got an optical-overlay network
that's got to be up in 17 days.
They sent me some code tonight.
The black hat who hit
the Chai Wan reactor.
When I looked at the code, it was...
And?
I have to have a network engineer
with me I can trust.
Really trust.
Like, 100%.
When do we leave?
The meltdown in China
and the run-up in soy yesterday
was facilitated by the same RAT.
How it got loaded in
in the first place, we don't know.
But, once inside, it de-cloaked
A RAT.
The RAT's job was to open a back door
in our system and call home.
The black hat then used his back door
Its payload.
That is what rode up soy.
Now that we're looking at the RA and payload closely,
we're thinking they were...
Written by different authors.
How we figured that out
was through the coding in the RAT.
it is lean, graceful.
The payload's coding, on the other hand,
feels frenetic, confused...
Frenetic? Or overwritten?
So, the question
we're dealing with is...
Is there somewhere we can talk?
...and if it is two, they may not
be working in close proximity.
Daniels is qualified
in computer forensics.
written that report.
Oh, really?
And who do we need, if not Daniels?
And "liaise" in "liaison group"
implies mutuality.
You don't like our boy, what ideas
are you bringing to the dance?
A man named Hathaway.
He's a convicted hacker,
serving 15 years in U.S.P.
Canaan in Waymart, Pennsylvania.
You telling me some hacker in prison
is hitting our financial markets?
No. But we want Hathaway on the team
so he can help out the investigation.
He hit four major banks,
ran up $46 million in damages.
And that's just what we know about.
You want the DOJ to do anything
other than laugh?
Daniels said two authors
wrote the virus.
I don't know who wrote the second half,
but the first half, the RAT,
that Daniels called "lean and graceful"?
One of the original authors is me.
I co-wrote it,
as a gag, years ago at MIT.
And my roommate, the genius lead author?
Nicholas Hathaway.
That's right.
The hacker found
the RAT online and modified it.
If we want to move
around within this code
looking for clues to
the hacker's identity,
we need its lead architect.
The reactor in China, I heard about,
but the spike in soy futures...
All right, I didn't know any of this.
We don't get a lot of new news in here.
The US government would like
your technical advice on this.
In exchange for that, we're going
to furlough you right out of here.
You sign that on the last page,
and we'll get you processed.
You'll wear an ankle bracelet
and be accompanied by a US Marshal.
Your computer access will be restricted.
If you wanna study the whole document,
you can go right ahead.
I can come back in a month or two.
No, I'm done.
You didn't sign it.
- Yeah. Why would I sign it?
- Why?
Because of the generosity
in granting you a furlough.
Both you and the Assistant US Attorney
can stick that document up your ass.
I'm sorry?
Why are you sorry?
I insulted you. What are you
sorry for? I'm not sorry.
- Don't think you're gonna...
- Hey.
You wanna raise me up out of here,
solve your trade exchange dilemma,
and I get a furlough for a couple of weeks?
You kidding me?
You have any idea how much progress
you're gonna make
on a strike this complex
without someone like me?
Zero.
This isn't a negotiation.
I just made it one.
You want me? You pass this upstairs.
If my assistance results
in the identification
and the apprehension
of the guy you're after,
I want you to commute my sentence.
If I come up empty,
you toss my ass back in the can.
Those are the terms.
Guard.
Interview's over.
Barrett, how badly do you need this guy?
It's so good to see you, bro.
Not half as much as it
is for me to see you.
Let's get out of here.
So, you planned to reunite with your friend
from the moment you landed?
It entered my mind.
You okay?
Yeah, I'm fine.
Okay. Please keep them out of sight,
if you can help it.
See? He ripped off
and repurposed our code.
- What the hell is this?
- What?
The agreement was an approval
and a presence for his computer access.
- I approved it.
- A DOJ approval.
- Now you're changing the goalposts?
- Hola, chica. You came to me.
How am I supposed to do my work?
On an abacus or something?
"Chica"? Am I Hispanic?
What the hell's going on?
I advocated getting you over here.
I pulled every string to get your convicted
felon sprung, Mr. Chen.
"Captain" Chen. And I didn't ask.
I offered partnership, an equivalent,
or we would do it on our own.
Well, I'll be happy
to bust him back to Canaan
and put your ass
on the first plane back to China.
He apologizes.
My brother misunderstood
our arrangement, Special Agent.
Look around.
I have to run the morning backup.
Your network is sitting behind
deep packet inspection,
intrusion protection.
It's extensively firewalled.
Exactly.
So somebody had to physically
enter this room and plug the virus in.
and surveillance tapes.
There was no unauthorized entry.
Now, we're thinking about
a routing weakness.
That's too complicated.
He wouldn't have done that.
Yeah. Well, what you're proposing
didn't happen.
There's only one person who's authorized
Me.
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