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FireEye discloses breach, theft of red team tools

By Christopher Bing

Dec 9 2020 8:31AM

Releases 'hundreds' of countermeasures.

FireEye discloses breach, theft of red team tools

FireEye, one of the largest cyber security companies in the United States,has been hacked, possibly by a government, leading to the theft of an arsenal of internal hacking tools typically reserved to privately test the cyber defences of their own clients. The hack of FireEye, a company with an ...

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