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BOSTON, 10 (Reuters/EP)

The Group of pirates inform?ticos that atac? Google in 2009 lanz? hundreds of cyber-attacks since then, centr?ndose in US Defense compa??as and human rights groups, seg?n a new investigaci?n of the Symantec security software manufacturer.

Google said in January 2010 to hab?a been v?ctima of a sophisticated Cyber, called Aurora Operaci?n of pirates inform?ticos based in China that hab?a result in the theft of intellectual property. Another twenty compa??as tambi?n was attacked.

Although the identity of the hackers, the incident aument? p?blica never became the tensions between Washington and Pek?n, by the considerable n?mero of cyber-attacks against American institutions from China.

"It was big news at the time, but people do not realize that this est? happening constantly", said the director of the Group of Symantec, Eric Chien investigaci?n. "They have not disappeared and we cannot expect to do so", agreg?.

Symantec said on Friday that the pirates the Aurora Operaci?n detr?s inform?ticos is hab?an focused on the theft of intellectual property, as documents dise?o of contractors from defense and its suppliers, including shipping, aeron?uticas, arms companies, manufacturing, ingenier?a and electr?nica.

The pirates used a com?n to Symantec infrastructure components denomin? "Elderwood Platform", a word that is repeated several times in the c?digo of software used in different attacks.

In the a?o ?ltimo, 'hackers' Elderwood have focused almost exclusively on the theft of data from companies that supply parts to large defense contractors, m?s that in the companies themselves, said Chien.

The second group of usual m?s goals were non-governmental organizations involved in human rights in Tibet. Financial and software companies were among those affected, Symantec a?adi?.

The security firm, which sells antivirus software to corporations and consumers under brands Norton, Symantec, declin? identify espec?ficamente to the v?ctimas and advirti? which has no evidence to ensure that the attacks originated in China.