Threat Brief: Fire Eye Red Team Tool Breach
Summary: On Dec. 8, 2020, FireEye reported a breach and data exfiltration in which a sophisticated threat actor stole the company's internal, custom-crafted red-team and penetration testing tools, which FireEye uses to imitate threat actors during customer security consultations. FireEye released Yara rules, indicators of compromise, Snort signatures and other threat data, and its Github repository lists rules plus 16 vulnerability CVE identifiers that Palo Alto Networks is mapping to its own protections.
Key Takeaway: Palo Alto Networks states the tools, their hashes and associated samples had not been disclosed to the public at publication, and that the biggest threat is the actor and the techniques used to infiltrate FireEye's infrastructure - for which no TTP information had been released.
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