U.S. Pinpoints Coder Behind Google Attack

“U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware program used in hacker attacks on Google last year, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

The man, a security consultant in his 30s, posted sections of the program to a hacking forum where he described it as something he was ‘working on,’ the paper said, quoting an unidentified researcher working for the U.S. government.

The spyware creator works as a freelancer and did not launch the attack, but Chinese officials had ‘special access’ to his programing, the report said.”

(Source: U.S. Pinpoints Coder Behind Google Attack | Threat Level | Wired.com.)