Network security experts unmask command servers behind Google attack
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Researchers at VeriSign's iDefense lab have published a report claiming that the Chinese government was responsible for the recent large-scale cyber attacks that targeted Google and other U.S. companies.
Ars Technica says that the report "unambiguously declares that the Chinese government was, in fact, behind the effort[,]" and that the two command-and-control servers believed to have been the driving forces behind the attacks were the same ones used in a similar but smaller-scale attack performed this summer.
Ars Technica further asserted that, "if the report's findings are correct, it suggests that the government of China has been engaged for months in a massive campaign of industrial espionage against U.S. companies."
The U.S. government has raised the issue with China. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told Reuters that "we have serious concerns about this and its ramifications, and we're going to continue our dialogue with China on these and other kinds of issues." Additionally, Reuters said that the White House issued its own condemnation of the attacks and expressed its support for Google.
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