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There is nothing to suggest that the developers of these tools had any direct connection to these intrusions, as the tools are widely available on the Chinese web forums and tend to be used extensively by Chinese hacker groups.
But patching the vulnerabilities used for mass infections of sites, which often use automated tools to spread malware among thousands of targets, is very different from patching every vulnerability a hacker could possibly use for a targeted attack on a single victim site.