The clock on the wall of the Sterling & Co. server room ticked toward 2:00 AM. Elias, the senior systems admin, stared at his monitor until the code began to swim. He was hunting for a ghost—a "patched" vulnerability in the firm’s proprietary software that shouldn’t have existed.
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Earlier that day, an anonymous tip had flagged a file titled "Transfixed_Office_MS_Conduct." The clock on the wall of the Sterling & Co