One of the more experienced hackers leaned back in his chair, his brow furrowed and frowned. "They must have known we'd come for them again. What if they had intentionally let us in during the first attack just to bolster their defenses? They've likely set up a honeypot to gather intelligence on us."
The room fell silent as the gravity of his suggestion sank in. "It's possible," someone finally replied, glancing nervously at the array of blinking lights on their hardware.
"But who has the resources to pull off something like this without making a spectacle of it? The sheer computing power required to run real-time analysis and adaptive security protocols is astronomical."
