The week before last we wrote about the announcement from FireEye claiming that a nation-state with ‘top-tier offensive capabilities’ had stolen its stash of ‘Red Team assessment tools’. The announcement raised more questions than it answered, however, we were sure that with the impressive forensic capabilities of the former Mandiant part of FireEye, they would … Read more
This week, none other than top-flight information security outfit FireEye announced that it had been hacked, claiming that a nation-state with ‘top-tier offensive capabilities’ had stolen its stash of ‘Red Team assessment tools’. Since FireEye acquired the go-to (for large corporate, Enterprises and those with deep pockets at least) incident response firm in 2014, in fact, … Read more
This is a story that doesn’t appear to be going anywhere soon, is very intriguing and most importantly seems to be the work of cat stroking, possibly Eastern European or Russian master criminals (mwahahaha), so we thought we would try our best to explain it. Here goes… First a bit of the history. Way back … Read more