McAfee: ‘Amateur’ malware not used in Google attacks

“A misstep by McAfee security researchers apparently helped confuse the security research community about the hackers who targeted Google and many other major corporations in cyber attacks last year.

On Tuesday, McAfee disclosed that its initial report on the attacks, which it branded Operation Aurora, had mistakenly linked several files to the attacks that had nothing to do with Aurora after all.”

(Source: McAfee: ‘Amateur’ malware not used in Google attacks.)