Cicada 3301: The most mysterious internet puzzle

📱Dive into the mysteries of Cicada 3301. 🕵️ 🚀 Improve your online protection with a few clicks 📱👈 🔥 Get the exclusive YouTube offer: https://content.nordvpn.com/44gGLXd Cicada 3301 is often titled the greatest internet mystery of all time. What is it? What secrets does Cicada 3301 hide? Watch the video and explore one of the internet’s weirdest mysteries Contents of the video: 00:00 Intro 00:15 The first puzzle of Cicada 3301 01:28 The man who claims Cicada 3301 hired him 02:00 The second and the third Cicada 3301 puzzles *** On January 4, 2012, the internet went nuts. That’s when Cicada 3301 emerged from underground, infecting the mind of every online detective. Why is it called one of the biggest cyber mysteries? Cicada 3301 is a set of puzzles published between 2012 and 2014. The first challenge started with an image posted by an anonymous user on a 4chan forum. It sounded like the spookiest job ad ever. Users soon discovered that opening the image with a text editor revealed a code. The code hid a link. And the link led to another image. Buckle up – that’s just the beginning. After cracking more codes, internet scavengers extracted a phone number. Calling it gave them another cipher. This is where it gets interesting. The next challenge presented coordinates of locations scattered all around the globe. The magnitude of this riddle proved Cicada wasn’t a one-person army. What was it? A secret society of internet prodigies, a government organization, or a cult? Armchair detectives were pulling their hair out. Marcus Wanner, a brainiac from Virginia, USA, speaking to Rolling Stone magazine, claimed he was hired by the group. According to Marcus, Cicada told him that “they are much like a think tank that researches and develops techniques to aid the ideas they advocate: liberty, privacy, security.” The correspondence between him and the group went through the dark web. Marcus never found out the identities of his employers. According to Wanner, he and other solvers of the first puzzle worked on the Cicada Anonymous Key Escrow System – a software program to protect whistleblowers. Meanwhile, in 2013, Cicada returned for a second round of mysteries. The puzzles followed a similar pattern: Decoded images presented new ciphers that led to books and audio recordings with encrypted messages. Plot twist – the song you hear is one of Cicada’s riddles. The second challenge of Cicada also expanded into the physical world. But soon, the trace went cold. The third and last quest appeared in 2014. It revolved around a book called Liber Primus or The First Book. The book features images of ancient ruins. Only a small part of them have been solved. Enigma enthusiasts still attempt to crack the book’s code. Cicada itself has been dead silent since 2017. Its last verified message refuted ownership of puzzles released by copycats. Will Cicada ever return? Who are the people that created it? The mystery may remain unsolved forever. Yet one thing’s clear – Cicada 3301 is one of the biggest internet phenomena ever. *** 📌OUR SOCIAL MEDIA 📱 🔵FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/NordVPN/ 🔵INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/nordvpn/ 🔵TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@nordvpn 🔵TWITTER: https://twitter.com/NordVPN Check out NordVPN’s German and French channels ⏯️ 🌐 🇫🇷 @NordVPNenfrancais 🇩🇪 @NordVPNaufDeutsch #NordVPN # #Cicada3301 #Mystery