Freelance security worker 'coded Google cyber attack'
The author of the China-based programming code used in an alleged state-sponsored cyber attack on Google, and other US firms, has been identified as an IT contractor.
Traced by US officials, IT contractor reportedly created a code that compromised computers and planted spyware within them, thanks to a previously unknown hole in Internet Explorer.
Alongside Google, about 34 western companies were hit by his code, parts of which the 30-something freelancer uploaded to a hacking forum, a US official claimed.