Search giant on Tuesday (2 / 6), said hundreds of hackers trying to break into email accounts, including those of U.S. government officials, activists and Chinese journalists.
Actors who have not been identified, probably derived from Jinan attempt Forced entry to steal passwords. However, Google managed to sniff out and block the burglary attempt.
The incident came after Google revealed a year of cyber attacks against its systems. Based on the tracking, the company said the attack came from China, and also hinted that the incident could worsen already tense relations between the giant web it with Beijing.
The attack was once again sparked a long debate about censorship and tight control of the country's bamboo curtain on the internet.
"All people, especially investors want to know how Google deal with business in China and participate scooped the country's economic growth," said an analyst from Cowen and Co., Jim Friedland
"It has become difficult relationship since the first time and this time more events highlight that Google and China will continue to have a difficult relationship. "
Serious assault
"We pres-sure this new found attack by collecting the user's password," Google said in a company blog Tuesday (2 / 5). "The objective is to monitor traffic content targeted emails."
Google said the attacks tend to target the private emails of which belong to a senior U.S. official, Chinese political activist, Officials in several Asian countries - notably South Korea, military officials and the journalist.
The incident not only exacerbates the Google relationship, and China, but also Washington and Beijing, with disputes about human rights and trade.
The attacks revealed Wednesday it is also targeting large corporate sejumah in the West. U.S. warned computer-based attacks was estimated to serious and dangerous - even potentially raises military response in cyberspace. Although, the observer states can be difficult to track the accuracy of the original source.
Information technology company providing the highest U.S. government, Lockheed Martin, last week also said the company recently has been real enough to thwart malicious attacks trying to break into their network systems. However, Lockheed said there was no sign that the attacks originated from China.
In response, the White House said it was checking the incident. "We are studying the report and gather the facts," said White House spokesman, Tommy Vietor. "We can not directly believe that there is a single email that is accessed U.S. government officials."
Common Attacks Happen
Cyber attacks from China, according to chief technology security division at the telecommunications company BT, Bruce Schneier, is not new. In fact, he added, the attacks often occurred in recent years,
"Not only just from the Chinese government, but independent actors in China who beoperasi under the blessing of the government," he said.
Last year, hackers target Google's infrastructure. This time, they try to access email with stolen passwords.
According to the web giant, the offender change system settings foward the email user. Google figured that way, the hacker then sends the victim's personal email to another recipient.
Bruce was not surprised by the latest incident. "Over the last five years has become common knowledge that Chinese spies practice via the Internet," he said.
He even questioned, if such practices do long ago, only now the Google reveals why there are attacks. Even Google's figures also reveal owners targeted emails.