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2010-01-20 13:51:38 | |
| Joe Stewart of SecureWorks found evidence that the December attacks against Google did come from China. | |
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Joe Stewart is a malware specialist with SecureWorks, a computer security company based in Atlanta. He calls himself a reverse engineer, analysing and decomposing malware in order to better understand the inner workings of cyber attacks.
While McAfee initially referred to the threat as "Aurora", the malware used to hack Google and numerous other companies is now also known as the "Hydraq" trojan horse in the information security community. When combing the malicious code to find somthing of interest, Stewart noticed that a module used an unusual algorithm that had actually been posted only on Chinese-language Web sites. While the accusations against China had until now been based on the circumstances of the attacks (comprimising emails of Chinese human rights activists), this discovery gives a much more serious evidence to China's implication in the attacks. Of course, Stewart himself does not exclude the possibility that someone else (or a government or an organization) put this piece of code intentionally in its malware to incriminate China, but says it is unlikely, adding that "Occam’s Razor suggests that the simplest explanation is probably the best one." The recent problems of Google in China might also have to do with the search engine giant's cancellation of the launch of two of its Android phones in China. The Motorola and Samsung phones were supposed to be launched yesterday in partnership with China Unicom. While some pretend Google is trying to push China into diminishing the censorship of its search engine, Chinese media say Google simply found a discrete way to step out of a market where they would not be number one. The China-based search engine Baidu currently leads the market in the country. In any case, this whole China VS Google story is meant to generate a lot of talk in the coming weeks. Two different outcomes are currently possible, both having serious impact on the economic and political fields: either China accepts a censorship-free Google and Google keeps on doing business in China, or China does not modify its policy and Google takes everything it has in China out of the country. | |
Reference 1: http://techno.branchez-vous.com/actualite/2010/01/google_chine_cyberattaque_cheval_de_troie.html
Reference 2: http://techno.branchez-vous.com/actualite/2010/01/google_chine_smartphone_android_motorola_samsung.html
Reference 4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor
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