In January this year, Google disclosed that it had been attacked by hackers and claimed that important intellectual property rights had been stolen. More details of attack events are gradually emerging.
According to the New York Times, a person familiar with internal investigations revealed that hackers have stolen Gaia, Google's Single Sign-On authentication system.Source code. Gaia is a vital access control password system. Google's employees all over the world can use this system to access all the company's Web servers, including email and commercial applications.Program. Although Google is modifying this system, attackers may analyzeCodeFind new vulnerabilities that can be exploited in the future. The main battlefield for hacker attacks is Google China. A Google employee who uses the MSN instant chat tool received a malicious link and clicked the link to log on to a malicious website, the hacker controlled his computer and gained access to the computer of an important software development group at Google headquarters. Finally, the attacker obtained access to the software source code repository used by the development team.