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John Danenbarger
Operation Aurora is a cyber attack which began in mid-2009 and continued through December 2009. The attack was first publicly disclosed by Google on January 12, 2010, in a blog post. In the blog post, Google said the attack originated in China. The attack has been aimed at dozens of other organizations, of which Adobe Systems, Juniper Networks and Rackspace have publicly confirmed that they were targeted. According to media reports, Yahoo, Symantec, Northrop Grumman, Morgan Stanley and Dow Chemical were also among the targets."
From McAfree Labs:
"The news in January of the Operation Aurora/Google incident gave birth to the new category of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), which has been a hot topic of discussion in the industry and press for much of the year. However, there is much confusion about the true nature of these attacks.
"The generally accepted definition of an APT is one that describes a targeted cyber-espionage or cyber-sabotage attack that is carried out under the sponsorship or direction of a nation-state for something other than a pure financial or criminal reason or political protest. Not all APT attacks are highly advanced and sophisticated, just as not every highly complex and well-executed targeted attack is an APT. The motive of the adversary, not the level of sophistication or impact, is the primary differentiator of an APT attack from a cyber-criminal or hacktivist one."
So now you are quite well informed (for five minutes) until things change again.
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