The bank put him on hold. The hold music was generic. Pleasant. Leo didn't hear it. He was watching the black tape on his laptop camera, wondering if it was enough.
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The video was thirty seconds long. It showed him, from the night before, typing his password to log into his bank. The webcam light had not been on. He paid the $89.99 renewal for Bitdefender at 4:17 AM, hands trembling so badly he mistyped his credit card number twice. The bank put him on hold
That night, his phone buzzed. A text from an unknown number. No words. Just a screenshot: his own desktop, taken from his own webcam, the black tape visible over the lens. In the screenshot, a new folder had appeared on his desktop. It was labeled: LEO_FAMILY_DRIVE_C . Leo didn't hear it
The full system scan took forty-seven minutes.