FireEye Cyber breach – PART II

Fireeye Breach Part II

No organization is 100% secure – ever! As FireEye continued to investigate and identify the root cause of their security incident, they identified a global campaign that introduced a compromise into the networks of public and private organisations through the software supply chain. FireEye identified that this compromise was delivered through a widely used IT infrastructure management and remote monitoring software – SolarWinds. Although FireEye hasn’t attributed this attack to any particular group, based on several media reports, it is believed that this attack was carried out by a nation-state…

Fireeye Cyber Breach – PART I

Fireeye Breach

No organization is 100% secure – ever! FireEye is one of the world’s renowned cybersecurity firms with customers including major government agencies and enterprise customers around the world. The company is known for its world-class research on state-sponsored threat actors and its incident response capabilities. On 8th December 2020, FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia said in a public statement that they were recently attacked by a highly sophisticated threat actor. “This attack is different from the tens of thousands of incidents we have responded to throughout the years. The attackers tailored…