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Microsoft and cybersecurity firm FireEye has identified three new malware used by SolarWinds hackers in their last year’s attack on highly critical private and government cyberinfrastructure in the United States. According to FireEye and Microsoft’s latest analysis, the SolarWinds hack was far more sinister than it initially appeared to be. Reportedly, the companies have […]
A report from web application security specialists claims that the company in charge of developing TeamViewer, the popular system remote control software, was a victim of hacking. According to the reports, attackers could control any computer that has logged into this service for perform arbitrary activities. The report reveals that TeamViewer was hacked in 2016, […]
Fireye, a California-based public cybersecurity firm, launched a reverse engineering and malware analysis tool called FLARE VM in 2017. The tool allowed ethical hackers to isolate their primary machine and test the network/devices without worrying about malicious attacks. The firm has now released its Windows distribution named Commando VM, which is being called the Kali Linux alternative that resides […]
The infamous APT39, the alleged Iran-funded cyber espionage team has been identified by FireEye as actively targeting Europe, USA, Australia, South Korea and the Middle East region for their espionage campaign. “APT39 marks the fourth Iranian cyber threat actor that FireEye has elevated to the designation Advanced Persistent Threat (APT). APT39’s focus on personal information […]
‘LeakTheAnalyst’, The alleged hacker was arrested and detained by international law enforcement officials on Thursday, said FireEye Executive Director Kevin Mandia. In late July, the hacker, whose name has yet to be revealed, has managed to hack the personal online accounts of a senior threat intelligence analyst at Mandiant – a Virginia-based cybersecurity firm owned […]
The person who attacked the personal online accounts of a FireEye employee several months ago was arrested and taken into custody Thursday by international law enforcement, FireEye said Thursday. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company worked with law enforcement and spent hundreds of hours investigating a hacker’s July claim that he had breached FireEye’s corporate network, according […]
Sounds like it’s going to be a busy few days for R&D and PR departments at least two security companies. This weekend, vulnerability researchers have separately disclosed flaws in products from Kaspersky and FireEye that could be exploited by malicious hackers. First up was Tavis Ormandy. Ormandy, a security researcher at Google, has made a […]
In a report published by Kaspersky Lab and Cryptography and System Security(CrySyS) said that hackers targeted dozens of government owned computers in Ireland, Portugal, Czech Republic and Romania by a malicious malware known as MiniDuke. Fireeye about a week back, announced a new malware threat by the name of “Adobe Reader 0-day”. Since the induction of this new […]