China's 2010 Google Hack: Operation Aurora 🌐

On January 12, 2010, Google revealed that it was hacked. In a few days, a multitude of other major companies came forward admitting the same. Eventually, these attacks became known as Operation Aurora: one of the most ambitious hacking campaigns ever conducted. What clues about its origin and purpose can be found by digging deep enough into the code?

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
3:30 Chapter 1: Baseline
8:23 Chapter 2: Trigger
15:46 Chapter 3: Execution
34:32 Chapter 4: Post Mortem

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Credits:
Producer: Ignas Žadeikis
Writer: Valius Venckūnas
Video Editing & Animation: Matas Paskačimas
Narration: Ben Mitchell
Thumbnail Design: Aurimas Danius
Supervising Producer: Aušra Venckutė

Special thanks to:
Heather Adkins
Dmitri Alperovitch

Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Ifxj6CvqMaSJd9F6BLfLPHWxxGkRknp/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117960461628824818120&rtpof=true&sd=true

Suddenly your finger feels something out of place on the surface of your notebook, the same one you were given on the first way of your job. You look around, ascertained that there are no colleagues around, and carefully rip out the page. You realize that the scratches on the paper are so light that if you hadn't been caressing it so closely you would have never noticed. The indentations are unusual: among the doodles you left in boring meetings there are symbols of some sort. You recall the woman who gave you the notebook and begin feeling the letters. "S"... The first letter is "S". You move your body to cover the paper from the cameras and read the rest of the message. When you're finished, you check your e-mail. Your inbox contains work-related emails with documents. All of them are officially sanctioned. Every one of them contains polite and very healthy language, just like people speak in the office. Suddenly you think of the mysterious word on the notebook paper.

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