U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye discloses breach, theft of hacking tools
By Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn
(Reuters) – FireEye, one of an important cybersecurity firms inside the United States, talked about on Tuesday that it has been hacked, potential by a authorities, ensuing within the theft of an arsenal of internal hacking tools typically reserved to privately check out the cyber defenses of its purchasers.
The hack of FireEye, a company with an array of enterprise contracts all through the nationwide security space every inside the United States and its allies, is among the many many most significant breaches in newest memory. The firm’s shares dropped 8% in after-hours shopping for and promoting.
The FireEye breach was disclosed in a public submitting with the Securities and Exchange Commission citing CEO Kevin Mandia. It talked about “pink workforce tools” have been stolen as half of a extraordinarily refined, potential government-backed hacking operation that used beforehand unseen strategies.
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