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CYBER

One of the Top Cybersecurity Companies In the World Got Hacked

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Who ya gonna call when you are one of the greatest, multibillion dollar cybersecurity firms in the world, known for investigating breaches into governments and major corporations, when you’re hacked?

Well in the case of Fireeye, known for being staffed by ex-intelligence and doing the forensics on massive hacks, they came out and responsibly disclosed that it had been breached.

It’s big news in the hacking world and with me today is Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox to breakdown what happened and why it matters.


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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.8

It's a unit system. I know this. It's all the files of the whole park. It tells her everything.

0:19.1

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.8

Eagle One.

0:22.6

The package is being delivered.

0:24.7

Who are you going to call when you are one of the greatest multi-billion dollar cybersecurity firms in the world,

0:30.0

known for investigating breaches into governments and major corporations when you're hacked?

0:34.9

Sarah, Fire Eye is down hard here in the after hour saying that it was breached by suspected

0:41.3

nation-state hackers who act, they say, clandestinely using methods that counter-security tools

0:47.6

and forensic examination.

0:49.1

It says working with the FBI in this ongoing now investigation.

0:53.7

Well, in the case of Fire Eye, known for being staffed by ex-intelligence and doing the forensics

0:58.0

on massive hacks, they came out and responsibly disclosed that had been breached.

1:03.3

It's big news in the hacking world and with me today is motherboard reporter Joseph Cox

1:07.6

to break down what happened and why it matters. I'm Ben Makku, and this is Cyber.

1:26.5

So Joseph, Mandiant, Fire Eye?

1:30.3

I mean, this is like one of the most powerful, multi-billion-dollar cybersecurity companies in the world.

1:37.0

I mean, this is the type of company that huge corporations, people with money who get hacked, call.

1:42.1

And they themselves got hacked.

1:46.9

Yeah, so Fire Eye, these are the guys,

1:50.8

as you say, that if you're a government entity that's been hacked, if you're a private corporation that's been hacked, you may call up Fire Eye to come and investigate what was stolen,

1:56.2

how it was stolen, and potentially who was behind it as well. I mean, Fire Eye has been pretty forthcoming

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