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...FireEye said it was investigating the hack with the help of the FBI and other groups, including Microsoft....
...FireEye takes one in the eye from hackersUS cyber security group FireEye’s shares are down 12 per cent today after it reported it had suffered a major cyber attack itself....
...Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon, cyber security companies such as FireEye and officials from the FBI and US Department of Justice have published a report calling for measures to tackle the lucrative criminal enterprise...
...FireEye, SolarWinds and some US officials have blamed “nation-state” hackers for the breach, which first came to light at the end of last week....
...FireEye, SolarWinds and some US officials have blamed “nation-state” hackers for the breach....
...However, FireEye, the US cyber security group that first flagged the hacking campaign last week and was itself hacked, attributed it to a nation-state....
...Had it not been for cyber security firm FireEye, we may never have learnt of the intrusions on companies and many US institutions....
...Only the US commerce, energy and Treasury departments have acknowledged that they were hacked, alongside companies including Microsoft and cyber security company FireEye....
...John Hultquist, director of intelligence analysis at FireEye, the cyber security company which was itself a casualty of the attack, says the perpetrators painstakingly “compartmentalised” their actions,...
...He added that, while multiple companies had been attacked using Messagetap, he only had information about attacks on FireEye clients....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 19. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...FireEye said APT41 had also “gathered intelligence on pro-democracy dissidents in Hong Kong” in 2016 and 2017....
...FireEye also discovered Twitter profiles impersonating Republican congressional candidates, such as Marla Livengood in California and Jineea Butler in New York....
...Cyber security company FireEye says a hacking group with links to the Chinese state has intercepted text messages of foreign government and military targets by breaking into telecom companies’ servers....
...Advanced Persistent Threat 41 (APT41), the hybrid group identified on Wednesday by US cyber security group FireEye, is described as a “creative and well-resourced” outfit that has been operating since 2012...
...“Taiwan has been a place to watch what China is up to [in cyber warfare],” said Ben Read, head of the cyber espionage analysis team at cyber security group FireEye....
...who have adopted offensive cyber abilities, defined as the ability to disrupt or damage systems and networks, has risen from four — China, North Korea, Pakistan and India — to at least 14, according to FireEye...
...FireEye said it had been tracking the group’s activities since 2013 and that it believed the hackers were acting on behalf of the Chinese government....
...fragmented market, divided between companies like Symantec and McAfee that got their start as anti-virus software makers, large technology groups such as IBM, a younger generation of companies including FireEye...
...attacks come from, however, China was “the principal threat” and used Taiwan as a “proving ground” for refining its cyber espionage techniques, said Benjamin Read, manager of cyber espionage analysis at FireEye...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on August 21, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...FireEye said authorities must now also monitor APT37....
...attempts against US electricity providers from actors that we believe are affiliated with the North Korean government,” says John Hultquist, director of intelligence analysis at US cyber security company FireEye...
...also provides Russia with a new level of influence and “significant visibility” into North Korean communications, according to Bryce Boland, the Asia Pacific chief technology officer at cybersecurity firm FireEye...
...“Boundaries are being tested all the time,” says FireEye’s Mr Watters, “and they are going to continue to be tested until there’s blowback.”...
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