News that students in two Chinese schools could be behind recent well-publicized online attacks on Google and other major U.S. corporations doing business in China has security experts running for cover. McAfee, which has dubbed the hacks “Operation Aurora,” described the series of attacks as highly sophisticated and a watershed event in cybercrime. The attacks have led to a standoff between Internet megacompany Google and the government of China over Beijing’s censorship of the Internet.
