The action of the book begins in 1998 in St. Petersburg. Lex and Nick, two fraternal boys from an exemplary orphanage, are seriously interested in computer science and programming. One day, they hack into the local network in a computer club owned by a retired FSB officer. The series of events caused by this prank will force friends to roam all over our country - and not only ours. Secret organizations, industrial espionage, quick money, cyber wars, successful network projects, contract killings, the will of the powerful - all this and much more will eventually make the former twin brothers mortal enemies. And not the last role in this will be played by a mysterious girl with a keychain in the form of a spider made of silver metal... The book "Hackers. Basic" contains secret information about some of the events that took place in the field of IT (and not only) in the period from 1998 to 2006 . Many names and titles have been changed for the safety of the Ethnogenesis project. The literary series "Entogenesis" started in 2009. More than 25 books by science fiction authors, project participants, have already been published. This is a new unusual world, united by mysterious artifacts that endow their owner with magical powers. Alexander Chubaryan writes his novels on the verge between fantasy, reality, real and virtual worlds and takes the reader along with him into dangerous and intriguing adventures.