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U.S. government analysts think they know who wrote a key part of a spyware program used in hacker attacks on Google in China last year.

 

According to a report in the Financial Times (News - Alert), authorities have linked some code used in the spyware program to a Chinese man with government links.

The Financial Times reported on Monday the man is a security consultant who posted sections of the program to a hacking forum. From there it was uploaded by someone else who created the program. Authorities still have not pinpointed who actually launched the attack – however they have traced it to computers at two Chinese universities, which may have been used as part of a botnet.

To read more about this development, check out the report.