Research by McAfee Labs discovered Coming_to_believe that `` Aurora '' was part of the file path on the attacker 's machine that was included Cause_to_be_included in two of the malware binaries McAfee said were associated Collaboration with the attack .

Research by McAfee Labs discovered Coming_to_believe that `` Aurora '' was part of the file path on the attacker 's machine that was included Cause_to_be_included in two of the malware binaries McAfee said were associated Collaboration with the attack .

`` We believe the name was the internal name the attacker ( s ) gave Giving to this operation , '' McAfee Chief Technology Officer George Kurtz said Statement in a blog post .

According to McAfee , the primary goal of the attack Attack was to gain Getting access Having_or_lacking_access to and potentially modify source code repositories at these high tech , security and defense contractor companies .