Security News > 2020 > December > FireEye Hacked

During our investigation to date, we have found that the attacker targeted and accessed certain Red Team assessment tools that we use to test our customers' security.

These tools mimic the behavior of many cyber threat actors and enable FireEye to provide essential diagnostic security services to our customers.

We are sharing these countermeasures with our colleagues in the security community so that they can update their security tools.

We will continue to share and refine any additional mitigations for the Red Team tools as they become available, both publicly and directly with our security partners.

The hack was the biggest known theft of cybersecurity tools since those of the National Security Agency were purloined in 2016 by a still-unidentified group that calls itself the ShadowBrokers.

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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/12/fireeye-hacked.html