April 5 - The Ouroboros Seven

You probably haven't heard of the Ouroboros Seven yet, but you will. They're a group of Chinese cyberterrorists who spent much of the last year silently infecting every computer in the world with the elgoog virus. Investigators are still not sure how they did it, but basically if you've Googled anything in the last 12 months, the elgoog virus is sitting dormant somewhere on your hard drive.
About a week ago, each of the Ouroboros Seven went to a different continent to put their plan into action. The plan was that on April 4 at exactly 4:44:44 am, the elgoog virus would go live. That particular time was chosen because the Chinese word for "four" sounds strikingly similar to the Chinese word for "death". As 4/4 4:44:44 is seven 4s, that's one for each of the Ouroboros Seven. At precisely that time, each of them would Google the word elgoog, which would set in motion a systemwide reversal of every function ever carried out on any computer infected with the elgoog virus. It would be like the Y2K crash that never happened, but instead of every computer crashing the moment the year 2000 hit, the virus would be triggered on every computer at 4:44:44 am.
So what was the elgoog virus? Imagine the namesake of the Ouroboros Seven: A serpent swallowing its own tail. That was elgoog: everything on an infected computer swallowing itself. Every document would delete itself from the end to the beginning. Every email in every inbox would return to its sender where it would get swallowed beginning with the last character and ending with the first. Every line of code on every website and operating system around the world would eat itself from back to front causing a worldwide implosion of the Internet and all computer systems, and everything in the world that depended on computers would shut down permanently.
So why haven't you heard of them until now? Why didn't they succeed? Why are you still able to read this story online? Why does everything still work?
Because they screwed up.
In China there is only one time zone and it covers the entire country. If it's 8 am in Shanghai, it's also 8 am in Xianjiang, even though they're on opposite ends of the country. The member of the Ouroboros Seven in charge of setting off the virus in Asia triggered it at 4:44:44 Chinese time and it instantly became activated on every other computer that was also set to Chinese time. So far, so good; however, the other six each made the mistake of thinking that every other place in the world also followed Chinese time. Because they had grown up in a place where it was always the same time throughout the country, upon arrival in Africa, Europe, Australia, North America, South America, and Antarctica, they assumed that the time they saw on every clock and every watch was Chinese time. And so they planned to trigger the virus at 4:44:44 according to those clocks, but it never happened.
Only the guy in charge of triggering the virus in Asia was partially successful. Computer systems and websites all across China imploded, but word of the China-wide computer crash spread fast, and antivirus programs everywhere else quickly learned how to isolate and contain the virus. By the time the other six Ouroboros Seven figured out their mistake it was too late to do anything about it. All seven of them were quickly caught.
So far China is denying that anything happened, but word is getting out.
As for the elgoog virus on your computer, most antivirus software programs should take care of it, but to be on the safe side, cyber security specialists advise not Googling elgoog for the time being.