Two Chinese schools with links to the armed forces have become implicated as suspects in the ongoing Operations Aurora attacks against Google and at least 33 other western conglomerates last December.
Security experts, including investigators from the National Security Agency, now reckon the attacks date from April last year, far earlier than previously suspected, the New York Times reports. Although the attacks originated from China, it's by no means clear that they were orchestrated by the Chinese government. It's even possible that hackers from outside China ran, or had an involvement in, at least some of the attacks.
However one prominent strand in the ongoing investigation is focusing on two Chinese computer science facilities - Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Lanxiang Vocational School - according to unnamed investigators, the NYT reports. Lanxiang is a vocational school involved in training some military computer scientists. Jiaotong is a top flight university that runs well-regarded computer science courses.
Officials at the two schools said they are yet to hear from US investigators. An unnamed professor at Jiaotong's school of information security engineering told the NYT that students sometimes hack western websites while also noting that hijacking of its IP addresses by external hackers is commonplace. Staff at Lanxiang told The Guardian that its students were middle-school students learning skills such as Photoshop.
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LOL
Havent they denied it today.