Security News > 2020 > December > Security firm FireEye hit by state-sponsored cyberattack
On Tuesday, security firm FireEye revealed that it was hit by a state-sponsored cyberattack through which the attackers stole its Red Team tools, a collection of scripts, scanners, and techniques used to train clients on how to improve their security defenses.
The attackers operated clandestinely using tactics that counter security defenses and examination, and ones that Mandia said were not seen by FireEye or its partners before.
The attacker targeted and stole specific Red Team assessment tools used to analyze the security of FireEye customers.
"The stolen tools give the attackers another method to compromise government targets," said Rick Holland, chief information security officer at security firm Digital Shadows.
"We have prepared countermeasures that can detect or block the use of our stolen Red Team tools.We have implemented countermeasures into our security products.We are sharing these countermeasures with our colleagues in the security community so that they can update their security tools.We are making the countermeasures publicly available in our blog post,"Unauthorized Access of FireEye Red Team Tools.