Leo leaned back. The Talon's cooling fan whirred softly. Somewhere in Hong Kong, a frozen ledger unlocked. In Hamburg, a trader's terminal rebooted with a cheerful chime.
A rogue piece of code had nested itself in the transatlantic fiber lines, corrupting financial ledgers from Hamburg to Hong Kong. Conventional antivirus software scanned for signatures. The Cascade had no signature. It was a shapeshifter, rewriting its own instructions every 12 milliseconds. turbo programming
His phone buzzed. Petra's text: "How?"