Betrayed: (A Financial and Conspiracies Thriller – Book 1 in the Legacy Thriller Series) by William Wield Page B
Authors: William Wield
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worry?’
‘Don’t know really. Mainly for my uncle’s sake – but others’ too I suppose − Athena’s just got to succeed. And whereas the Craithe team’s probably among the best in the world − even the NSA’s in the States − we won’t know just how good we are when faced for the first time by the real thing.’
‘I see,’ said Kim quietly, ‘I’m sorry I hadn’t really appreciated the degree of responsibility before.’ She gave Angus a wisp of a smile and went back to her office to get ready for the trip north.
Angus was beginning his tidying up to leave when the telephone rang.
‘Yes Perry,’ said Angus, ‘is this about something that can’t wait? The helicopter taking us up to meet the others at Glasgow Airport is due shortly and I’m just finishing up here.’
‘Though I haven’t quite finished my searches of Ramos’s two laptops in Manila,’ said Perry, ‘I’ve done some quick scans and I thought you’d like to know who his associates are, especially before you leave the office,’
‘I would.’
‘Two names keep coming up,’ continued Perry, ‘they’re Silayev and Komarov. This Komarov is the same Igor Komarov whose money you asked me to move to your bank earlier today. I’ll need more time to look further into Anton Silayev.’
For a moment there was silence.
‘You did the right thing catching me before I left for Scotland,’ said Angus, ‘see what more you can get on both of these two and we’ll have a chat as soon as I get to Craithe.’
As soon as he had put the telephone down, he pressed a couple of numbers on the intercom. As soon as he was through to Peter Fleming, his General Manager he spoke urgently. ‘Pete, do us a favour, will you.’
‘Of course.’
‘The new account I opened for a Mr Komarov and transferred money into this morning?’
‘Mr Igor Komarov, yes.’
‘Make sure that account is blocked immediately will you. Until further notice, no one but me is to be allowed to access that account, got that?’
‘Got it,’ said Fleming.
Chapter 6
Thursday, lunchtime,
Number 11 Downing Street, London
Simon Cape, the Chancellor’s chief legal aide at Number 11 Downing Street, got down into the hall just as the Towneley Bank courier arrived with the package. It underwent the standard safety checks – for such as explosives or anthrax – and Cape then took it to his office.
As many Government computers have their usb memory stick drives disabled, Craithe had also verified that Cape would use his own laptop into which he could plug the memory stick. Cape plugged the security-cleared stick into his laptop followed by the password given to him earlier by Perry. On opening the files on the stick, he first read through the schedule to be sure he was up to date with Athena’s launch programme:
Today, 3.35pm to 4.15pm, ITV’s programme ‘A Day on the London Stock Exchange’
3.50pm Demonstration of Hedge Fund’s erratic trades for exactly one minute. Presenter of this sponsored programme to focus on this erratic trading. (Programme available thereafter on iPlayer for one week).
Good Friday, 9am to midday, Bank of England Cyber Defences Convention. By invitation only. Repeat of the attack sequence from the televised demonstration.
Installation of Athena’s attack detection software on any mainframes still not protected by it. Questions and Answers on Athena.
Conference to be warned that, at any time during the conference, there might be a cyber-attack on one of the companies attending.
Athena software on client’s machines to detect the attack and from its base, Athena to counter-attack and eliminate the attacker.
Cape looked through the contents of the memory stick a second time and chose a few documents which he thought would help the Chancellor at the Cobra Meeting. These he copied into a new folder on the machine’s desktop and named it “for printing”. He then called for his secretary, Mina, to come in quickly
‘Don’t know really. Mainly for my uncle’s sake – but others’ too I suppose − Athena’s just got to succeed. And whereas the Craithe team’s probably among the best in the world − even the NSA’s in the States − we won’t know just how good we are when faced for the first time by the real thing.’
‘I see,’ said Kim quietly, ‘I’m sorry I hadn’t really appreciated the degree of responsibility before.’ She gave Angus a wisp of a smile and went back to her office to get ready for the trip north.
Angus was beginning his tidying up to leave when the telephone rang.
‘Yes Perry,’ said Angus, ‘is this about something that can’t wait? The helicopter taking us up to meet the others at Glasgow Airport is due shortly and I’m just finishing up here.’
‘Though I haven’t quite finished my searches of Ramos’s two laptops in Manila,’ said Perry, ‘I’ve done some quick scans and I thought you’d like to know who his associates are, especially before you leave the office,’
‘I would.’
‘Two names keep coming up,’ continued Perry, ‘they’re Silayev and Komarov. This Komarov is the same Igor Komarov whose money you asked me to move to your bank earlier today. I’ll need more time to look further into Anton Silayev.’
For a moment there was silence.
‘You did the right thing catching me before I left for Scotland,’ said Angus, ‘see what more you can get on both of these two and we’ll have a chat as soon as I get to Craithe.’
As soon as he had put the telephone down, he pressed a couple of numbers on the intercom. As soon as he was through to Peter Fleming, his General Manager he spoke urgently. ‘Pete, do us a favour, will you.’
‘Of course.’
‘The new account I opened for a Mr Komarov and transferred money into this morning?’
‘Mr Igor Komarov, yes.’
‘Make sure that account is blocked immediately will you. Until further notice, no one but me is to be allowed to access that account, got that?’
‘Got it,’ said Fleming.
Chapter 6
Thursday, lunchtime,
Number 11 Downing Street, London
Simon Cape, the Chancellor’s chief legal aide at Number 11 Downing Street, got down into the hall just as the Towneley Bank courier arrived with the package. It underwent the standard safety checks – for such as explosives or anthrax – and Cape then took it to his office.
As many Government computers have their usb memory stick drives disabled, Craithe had also verified that Cape would use his own laptop into which he could plug the memory stick. Cape plugged the security-cleared stick into his laptop followed by the password given to him earlier by Perry. On opening the files on the stick, he first read through the schedule to be sure he was up to date with Athena’s launch programme:
Today, 3.35pm to 4.15pm, ITV’s programme ‘A Day on the London Stock Exchange’
3.50pm Demonstration of Hedge Fund’s erratic trades for exactly one minute. Presenter of this sponsored programme to focus on this erratic trading. (Programme available thereafter on iPlayer for one week).
Good Friday, 9am to midday, Bank of England Cyber Defences Convention. By invitation only. Repeat of the attack sequence from the televised demonstration.
Installation of Athena’s attack detection software on any mainframes still not protected by it. Questions and Answers on Athena.
Conference to be warned that, at any time during the conference, there might be a cyber-attack on one of the companies attending.
Athena software on client’s machines to detect the attack and from its base, Athena to counter-attack and eliminate the attacker.
Cape looked through the contents of the memory stick a second time and chose a few documents which he thought would help the Chancellor at the Cobra Meeting. These he copied into a new folder on the machine’s desktop and named it “for printing”. He then called for his secretary, Mina, to come in quickly
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