It was 2:17 AM when Maya’s phone buzzed with a subject line that made her blood run cold:
Maya grinned, pulling a battered USB stick from her keychain. It looked like a retro gaming drive, but it was her ghost key. Inside a folder labeled “_backup_utils” was a single file: UltraVNC_Portable.exe . ultravnc portable
Her colleague, Tom, was already texting in all-caps. “DO YOU HAVE THE TOOL?” It was 2:17 AM when Maya’s phone buzzed