Leo spent the next 48 hours wiping his hard drives, changing every password he owned, and calling his bank to freeze his accounts. It was a stressful, exhausting lesson that cost him far more than a software license ever would have.
: An alert on his phone showed that someone had attempted to log into his bank account from an unrecognized IP address.
At first, nothing happened. No window popped up, and no drivers were updated. Leo clicked it again. Still nothing. Feeling defeated, he shut down his PC and went to bed, planning to deal with it in the morning. When he woke up, the nightmare began.
"Ignore," Leo muttered, telling himself the antivirus was just overreacting to a false positive. He disabled his shield and let the file run. ⚠️ The Aftermath