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FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack

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Re: FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack

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The problem with these articles is the cloak and dagger nature of these stories and the lack of healthy skepticism. While not necessarily the case here, every big tech company puts blame on an APT aka a nation state actor. In fact, the very same FireEye attributed the Sony Pictures hack to North Korea on extremely flimsy grounds. By those same measures one could have implicated East Palo Alto High School. You never r…

Maybe you should try to gain a basic understanding of what you're talking about before posting this /pol/ conspiracy theory stuff?

There exists very little doubt that NK was behind the Sony hack, there's even a federal indictment.

>It is the same as Crowdstrike going back on their wild claims while their CEO testified under oath.

This is a complete fabrication by you, utterly unsupported by the link you shared which only contains meaningless bickering regarding forensic traces of data exfiltration.

Re: FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack

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I found an XSS on FireEye's website when I was a pentester. Good times.. It took all night, too. Was worried it'd be the first gig I wasn't able to get a medium severity on.

I'm not sure anything can protect against a targeted attack from a nation-state. It's tempting to think that you can. But the warfare is asymmetric; they have all the time in the world to become certain that they can breach your outer defenses. One slip up, one old server version, is all it takes. I've seen it.

In this case, it's a security company, so I'm sure the irony seems a bit thick. But it's helpful to recall that security companies are companies. And no one is immune to security threats.

Re: FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack

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According to Reuters, a Western security official claims similar companies have been affected in a similar way to FireEye [1].

It will be interesting to see how this plays out, and if true, this may be the first of many compromises to be revealed.

[1] https://twitter.com/Bing_Chris/status/1336431664478687239

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