MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Jan. 18, 2010) -- In a report regarding the recently discovered attacks on Google and other major websites, the iDefense Labs unit of VeriSign Inc., citing anonymous sources, attributed the attacks to source IP addresses that were associated in the past with the Chinese government.

As with any complex cyber threat, the formal control of IP address space used in the attacks is not an indication of attack origin.

VeriSign Chief Technology Officer Ken Silva said, "At this time, we cannot confirm the specific actors in these attacks based on our current information. Our iDefense Labs unit continues to investigate the attacks on behalf of its clients. We want to emphasize that our initial report should not be interpreted as a conclusion on actor attribution, as some have concluded."

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