Is a cyber attack on Google an insider deal?
A couple of days ago, Google announced its intention to disable content filtering in the Chinese version of its search engine. The consequences of such a statement were written more than once, and I am not an exception . So, one of the reasons that prompted Google to make such a statement was the attack of hackers on the corporation's server, carried out, as stated by Google, from China.
The attack was carried out by exploiting the “hole” in the well-known Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, and the attack was really successful (for hackers, of course). In general, you can read more about the technology of the attack here .
What is interesting now is not the technology itself, but the fact that hackers knew where it was necessary to “beat” in the first place. How did they find out? Reuters reports that hackers may have received help from one of the employees (or several employees) of Google itself!
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So far, Google does not give an official statement on this message, probably, the management is preparing a decent response. But, you see, it is likely that someone from the employees of the Chinese branch of the corporation could really become an accomplice of hackers. It has already become known that, for some reason, for some reason, some employees in the Chinese office of Google have been transferred to other branches, and some of the workers have been fired.
Guide Google reports that while this attack is being investigated, it is quite likely that the study has already yielded results, and such personnel changes have been carried out for this reason - the guilty insiders sent by the Cossacks have indeed been found.
There is an assumption that some employees of the Chinese branch of Google have generally penetrated into this structure on the instructions of the Chinese authorities, and the hackers are not some, but governmental ones. Here is such a theory (perhaps in a couple of days followed by confirmation from Google) of the conspiracy of the Middle Kingdom against the global corporation Google.
As soon as additional information appears, I will publish updates in the same article.
The attack was carried out by exploiting the “hole” in the well-known Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, and the attack was really successful (for hackers, of course). In general, you can read more about the technology of the attack here .
What is interesting now is not the technology itself, but the fact that hackers knew where it was necessary to “beat” in the first place. How did they find out? Reuters reports that hackers may have received help from one of the employees (or several employees) of Google itself!
')
So far, Google does not give an official statement on this message, probably, the management is preparing a decent response. But, you see, it is likely that someone from the employees of the Chinese branch of the corporation could really become an accomplice of hackers. It has already become known that, for some reason, for some reason, some employees in the Chinese office of Google have been transferred to other branches, and some of the workers have been fired.
Guide Google reports that while this attack is being investigated, it is quite likely that the study has already yielded results, and such personnel changes have been carried out for this reason - the guilty insiders sent by the Cossacks have indeed been found.
There is an assumption that some employees of the Chinese branch of Google have generally penetrated into this structure on the instructions of the Chinese authorities, and the hackers are not some, but governmental ones. Here is such a theory (perhaps in a couple of days followed by confirmation from Google) of the conspiracy of the Middle Kingdom against the global corporation Google.
As soon as additional information appears, I will publish updates in the same article.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/81101/
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