On Dec. 8, 2020, one of the leading cybersecurity companies in the industry, FireEye, reported a breach and data exfiltration unlike any that we have seen previously. What makes this attack unique is not only the target, FireEye being a well-known cybersecurity company, but that the stolen data contains the internal, custom-crafted red-team and penetration testing tools used by the company to imitate different threat actors during customer security consultations. FireEye’s blog provided a wealth of information for defenders to implement security controls and mitigations for defense against the stolen tools. This data is being used by Palo Alto Networks to help ensure our customers are protected if the attackers choose to utilize the tools for malicious purposes.
It is important to note that these custom tools were not released into the wild, they were stolen by a sophisticated threat actor and we likely will not see a sudden widespread use of them. That being said, FireEye went beyond what was required – and what companies have done in the past – in releasing detection techniques.
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Source: Palo Alto
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