Is this the smoking gun for Aurora?

So it seems some researchers from Zscaler have found the Aurora malware resident on a Chinese government website.  Anyone going to the site would be infected by the same thing that Google, Adobe and others a few weeks ago. Up until now though it was suspected the attacks were Chinese based, whether or not the Chinese government was involved or tacitly approved of the hackers actions was a very touchy subject.

Byron Acohido over at USA Today broke this story. You would need root access to put this on the server according to Achohido.  So how did it get on the Chinese governments server? Good question.  I will be doing a full blown follow up to this whole matter tonight, so stay tuned. But for now, is this the smoking gun?

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