Cybersecurity corp FireEye has confessed its most secure servers have been compromised, almost certainly by state-backed hackers who then made away with its proprietary hacking tools.
“Recently, we were attacked by a highly sophisticated threat actor, one whose discipline, operational security, and techniques lead us to believe it was a state-sponsored attack,” a memo by its CEO Kevin Mandia on Tuesday read.
The tools stolen are used by FireEye to test their customers’ networks to find potential security holes, making it doubly embarrassing for the tech giant because, presumably, it uses its own tools to make sure its networks are secure. No nation state was named by FireEye though Russian involvement is suspected by the usual cybersecurity giant fireeye hacked backed spies stole crown jewels hacking tools
