The New York Times published a detailed accounting of ongoing cyber attacks on its systems following its report last October on the family wealth of Chinese premier Wen Jiabao. Some key points:
- The attacks originated from compromised university servers that the New York Times claims were previously used by hackers associated with the Chinese military.
- The intrusion most likely originated as a spearfishing attack.
- The Times hired computer security experts at Mandian to investigate the attacks.
- AT&T monitored and confirmed the attacks.
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The Wall Street Journal also confirmed that it has been the target of similar intrusion attacks.