A few days ago Google announced that it was hacked and the attacks originated from China. Google also mentioned that 30 other companies were hacked including some giants in technology, finance, media and chemical sector. We were not able to get the names of these companies nor do we know about the nature of attack which happened on these companies’ servers. But as far as Google is concerned, the nature of attack is somewhat known. Surprisingly these attacks were not aimed at getting financial benefits but, according to Google “primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists”. Strange? Although Google claims that only two accounts were accessed.

Further investigations says that hackers used a vulnerability in Adobe Reader to send malware to some companies and were successful in getting information from a few of the companies. Adobe acknowledged this attack and said “Adobe became aware on January 2, 2010 of a computer security incident involving a sophisticated, coordinated attack against corporate network systems managed by Adobe and other companies”. Although Adobe said that they have no information about any kind of data being compromised but they still are doing a full scale investigation.

Primary reports says that a trojan was attached to a pdf file which installed it self in the form of a Windows dll file. This trojan, named as Trojan.Hydraq, was communication with a server. It is believed that six IP addresses are in question this time. We warn our readers not to open any pdf file sent to you from any unknown source.

Update 1 : While we were banging our heads to know about these hackers, The Economic Times, a leading business newspaper in India wrote in its Kolkata edition dated January 14, an article which makes it clear that Chinese government might be behind these attacks. Now we know the reason why Google is trying to pull off from China.

Update 2 : How Google came to know that Chinese are hacking them? Well it seems, no they actually hacked their hackers back. Click here to read the full story.
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