The House just passed, by voice vote, HR 8235, the Open Courts Act of 2020, which would make federal court records (PACER) free to the public:https://t.co/eNw0Lg5yJN— Derek Willis (@derekwillis) December 8, 2020
“The FBI is investigating the incident and preliminary indications show an actor with a high level of sophistication consistent with a nation state,” said Matt Gorham, assistant FBI director for the Cyber Division.
A former Defense Department official familiar with the case said that Russia was high on the early list of suspects. In the run-up to the U.S. elections, where Russian interference was a prime concern, U.S. officials exposed some Russian hacking techniques.
Other security companies have been successfully hacked before, including Bit9, Kaspersky Lab and RSA, underscoring the difficulty in keeping anything digital away from the most sophisticated hackers.
“Plenty of similar companies have also been popped like this,” said a Western security official who asked not to be named.
“The goal of these operations is typically to collect valuable intelligence that can help them defeat security countermeasures and enable hacking of organizations all over the world,” said Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and former chief technology officer at top rival CrowdStrike.
FireEye disclosing what happened and which tools were taken is “helping to minimize the chances of others getting compromised as a result of this breach.”...part of the article.
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