Just a week after Google took on China directly by redirecting Google.cn users to Google.com.hk, the Mountain View behemoth is accusing Vietnam of cyber attacks directed at Vietnamese computer users around the world in its Security Blog:

In January, we discussed a set of highly sophisticated cyber attacks that originated in China and targeted many corporations around the world. We believe that malware is a general threat to the Internet, but it is especially harmful when it is used to suppress opinions of dissent. In that case, the attacks involved surveillance of email accounts belonging to Chinese human rights activists. Perhaps unsurprisingly, these are not the only examples of malicious software being used for political ends. We have gathered information about a separate cyber threat that was less sophisticated but that nonetheless was employed against another community.
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