{"id":116840,"date":"2020-12-08T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T03:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/cybersecurity-firm-fireeye-says-it-was-hacked-by-a-nation-state"},"modified":"2020-12-08T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T03:22:28","slug":"cybersecurity-firm-fireeye-says-it-was-hacked-by-a-nation-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/cybersecurity-firm-fireeye-says-it-was-hacked-by-a-nation-state","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity firm FireEye says it was hacked by a nation-state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cybersecurity-firm-fireeye-says-it-was-hacked-by-a-nation-state.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/fireeye\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >FireEye,<\/a> normally the first company that cyberattack victims will call, has now admitted it too has fallen victim to hackers, which the company called a \u201csophisticated threat actor\u201d that was likely backed by a nation-state.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireeye.com\/blog\/products-and-services\/2020\/12\/fireeye-shares-details-of-recent-cyber-attack-actions-to-protect-community.html\">a blog post<\/a> confirming the breach, the company\u2019s chief executive Kevin Mandia said the nation-backed hackers have \u201ctop-tier offensive capabilities,\u201d but did not attribute blame or say which government was behind the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Mandia, who founded <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/mandiant\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >Mandiant,<\/a> the incident response firm acquired by FireEye in 2014, said the hackers used a \u201cnovel combination of techniques not witnessed by us or our partners in the past\u201d to steal hacking tools used typically by red teams, which are tasked with launching authorized but offensive hacking campaigns against customers in order to find weaknesses or vulnerabilities before malicious hackers do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FireEye, normally the first company that cyberattack victims will call, has now admitted it too has fallen victim to hackers, which the company called a \u201csophisticated threat actor\u201d that was likely backed by a nation-state. In a blog post confirming the breach, the company\u2019s chief executive Kevin Mandia said the nation-backed hackers have \u201ctop-tier offensive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}