If there is a hacker organization whose members can span among software vendors, security vendors and hackers, and have a legal identity, then it must be the Carrot Alliance.
The Carrot Alliance is probably the strangest hacker organization in the world. all its members, both channel customers and end customers of the organization, sell their 0day to carrots and buy other 0day from carrots at the same time.
In the trading records of carrots, we can often see technicians of software companies and security enterprises selling loopholes in their products to hackers for hackers to make profits, and hackers can also see hackers sell vulnerabilities to security vendors of software vendors to make these products more secure and reliable. this is an organization that comes together purely for the sake of profit.
Since its founding six years ago, the Carrot Alliance has always aimed to build the world's largest 0day trading platform, and now it has become a super hacker group with members in more than 40 countries around the world.
Last year alone, sales of 0day traded through the Carrot Alliance reached $900m, with an average of several different levels of security vulnerabilities traded every day, and the benefits gained by hackers from reusing these 0day were too large to be calculated.
But it is such a strange organization that has openly gained legal status.
No matter it is the black hat conference or the white hat conference, all the major global security conferences in recent years have the shadow of the Carrot Alliance, who take advantage of the voice of their members in the security community. Loudly called for the need to establish a legitimate loophole trading platform, claiming that this would make security manageable.
At the beginning of this year, the Carrot Alliance finally got what it wanted, and more than a dozen world-class software vendors joined their trading platform. in the future, all vulnerabilities related to the software of these software vendors will not be allowed to be traded on the carrot platform, but can only be traded to software vendors. The Carrot Alliance has an unparalleled position in the hacker world for a moment, and he has grabbed a lot of hackers' pockets.
People with carrots know very well that if they can't keep the security risks of those software vendors under control, the support they get now will be lost at any time, so after getting the support of software vendors, Carrot immediately started a new project.
They used the voice and influence of their members to launch a vigorous action in the security community to resist the free publication of 0day in any form. This has directly led to a serious lack of technology in many security meetings since the beginning of this year. Everyone sat in the venue thinking about the future, but there was nothing practical at all. Carrots have even begun to crack down on loophole trading in other channels, and several hackers peddling 0day online have been sent to small dark rooms by carrots.
This series of acts of carrots can be described as extremely overbearing, forcing all loophole transactions to be carried out on his own platform, even if you don't want to make this money and want to publish your loopholes for free.
Six months ago, Wolf Wo announced that ten free 0Dayings would be released during the summit. Carrots immediately sent someone to verify that four of the ten 0day were related to software vendors on their own platform, and one of them was the most serious vulnerability, so they warned Wolf Warehouse that these vulnerabilities could not be made public.
Naturally, the wolf's nest does not pee this carrot. No matter how aggressive the carrot is, its sphere of influence is limited to Europe and the United States. For the time being, he can't get a foot in the domestic dark circle. Unexpectedly, a The9 came out to make trouble, and this The9 is likely to be the spokesman of carrots in China.
"Boy!"
Hu Yifei pinched his thigh hard and confirmed that he was not reading a fairy tale. He was a little dumbfounded. He didn't expect that there was such a monster in the hacker circle. He was surprised by the introduction of sugar-fried chestnuts about carrots.
This is absolutely comparable to open source organizations. Hackers of open source organizations shout and struggle for open source, and they are called together by purposes and ideas, and this carrot also has its own purpose and ideas, which is loophole franchise.
"although today's game was calm, I got the news from Langya that their carefully deployed 1000 servers have been captured so far, and The9 is probably waiting for the right time to completely screw up the Wolf Summit!" The cold bird continued to report the news he had heard from his friends.
Hu Yifei scratched his head and thought, what's the use of you telling me this? Wolf Summit can't be smashed, it has a ball relationship with me, that's all for the experts, "OK, I know!" Hu Yifei replied carelessly.
When the cold bird saw that there was no sign of the second master, he was in a bit of a hurry and said, "second master, you announced that you would attend this wolf summit. Many of my friends are now waiting to listen to your teachings. The9 and these grandsons are doing sabotage secretly, which is really too humiliating for you!"
Hu Yifei almost choked to death, this sugar fried chestnut is really pure, Leng regard himself as a master, he is a fart master, will turn off the phone, I said to attend the wolf summit, but to respond to the call of the idol cold bird, should respond to the situation, really expect yourself to listen to those master vernacular Tianshu one hundred and eight times, that is not to find inferiority! If it had been Xiao Le, I might have considered it. I still listen to the teachings. What can I teach you? in case your hands tremble and turn off the machine, you will cry to death.
The cold bird knew that the second master was going to attend the wolf summit, but secretly tricked a group of people to come to attend, not to hold the wolf's nest, but to hold the second in charge. He thought that since the second master had come to attend the summit, it would certainly not come empty-handed. As long as he can give some advice to himself at that time, he will definitely be able to improve his level.
Did not expect a very smooth thing, but jumped out of a small 99 on the way, which made the cold bird very unhappy, he did not take The9 seriously, but he would not easily offend people, especially there is a carrot standing behind this ninth organization.
Now that the wolf's nest is stubbornly refusing to send a request for help, the cold bird has no reason to stand up for others. As the wolf summit is about to fail, he has the idea of being the second master, as long as the second master can stand up and hum, he will risk it to overturn the troublemaker, "second master, I can't even watch this. I have many friends in the hacker circle. I promise to call on a lot of people for you." Definitely beat The9's intestines to remorse! "
Hu Yifei did not expect that this sugar fried chestnut is really persistent, and for a moment he was embarrassed to say that he was not a master. If he could have such a loyal fan, it also proved that he was a powerful personality. Usually ugly things, Hu Yifei can put a layer of gold on his face, now encounter beautiful things, naturally do not want to expose.
Hu Yifei grabbed his head and wondered how to deal with fried chestnuts with sugar so as not to hurt his childish heart in pursuit of stars. after thinking about it for a long time, Hu Yifei put out a very tough remark, "it's just a ninth organization, it's just a small minion. What's the point of beating them!"
The cold bird immediately heard the sound and said, "are you going to beat the carrots?"
"Hmm!" Hu Yifei had to continue to lie, thinking that rookies like fried chestnuts with sugar could just listen to friends talk about carrots, and it was impossible to connect with carrots, so he said, "it's just that I don't know them well, so give them a message for me." if Xiao Jiu dares to disturb my wolf summit, I will pickle their carrots! "
The cold bird was very excited. "well, second in charge, with your words, I'll know what to do!" Having said that, he unexpectedly forgot to resign to the second master, and went offline directly.
"this kid doesn't really have connections, does he?" Hu Yifei is silly, my God, if this boy really spread the word to the carrots, he can't pickle the carrots later, but what should I do?
Scratching his ears and scratching his cheek for a long time, Hu Yifei sighed, "it's a pity that a great superstar is rising slowly, but he has been overturned by a cow!" Oh, depressed, the cow blew up by himself.