Timeframe Period of active attack: mid-2009 through February of 2010Date of original public disclosure: 12 January 2010 Google ignited something of a firestorm on 12 January, 2010, when they published a 'blog post A new approach to China. In the post, they disclose an attack on their internal systems and attribute it to Chinese attackers. As details emerged of the Aurora attacks and subsequent campaigns, the Aurora attacks were found to likely be the work of a global threat actor generally known as Axiom G