{"id":56038,"date":"2020-12-17T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56038"},"modified":"2020-12-17T08:48:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T13:48:44","slug":"fireeye-and-us-treasury-department-hacked-russia-blamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56038","title":{"rendered":"FireEye and US Treasury Department hacked, Russia blamed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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FireEye and US Treasury Department hacked, Russia blamed<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

Security consulting company FireEye has been hacked and their \u201cRed Team\u201d tools, which was their proprietary intrusion detection and testing toolkit has been stolen. In a blog post<\/a>\u00a0about the incident the company attributed the breach to a highly skilled nation state actor possessing \u201cworld class capabilities.\u201d FireEye\u2019s clients include agencies at all levels of government and Fortune 500 companies globally.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe stolen \u201cred team\u201d tools \u2014 which amount to real-world malware \u2014 could be dangerous in the wrong hands,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

FireEye in an effort to mitigate the damage potential of the toolkits being in the wild, giving security teams the ability to build out defences against them.<\/p>\n

The attack is being widely attributed to Russia (which I have to admit, kinda gets an eyeroll from me)<\/p>\n

As I was writing this, a Washington Post article also trotted out Russian hackers in a piece about a breach at the US Treasury Department which cited, as its source material a one sentence report from Reuters. The entire Reuters report is as follows:<\/p>\n

\u201cA sophisticated hacking group backed by a foreign government stole information from the U.S. Treasury Department and a U.S. agency responsible for deciding policy around the internet and telecommunications, according to people familiar with the matter.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

From this sentence, Washington Post ran a story that starts out with\u00a0\u201cRussian government hackers breached the Treasury and Commerce departments\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 attributing the allegation to \u00a0\u201cpeople familiar with the matter.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Read:\u00a0https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-cyber-amazoncom-idUSL1N2IT0HS<\/a>
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\nI find it frustrating that the mainstream media bias is always quick to blame things on Russia and slow to acknowledge documented hostile behaviour from China. It\u2019s just kind of strange.<\/em>
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FireEye and US Treasury Department hacked, Russia blamed Security consulting company FireEye has been hacked and their \u201cRed Team\u201d tools, which was their proprietary intrusion detection and testing toolkit has been stolen. In a blog post\u00a0about the incident the company attributed the breach to a highly skilled nation state actor possessing \u201cworld class capabilities.\u201d FireEye\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29496,14645,2148,1339,694,827,5453],"class_list":["post-56038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-axis-of-easy","tag-computer-hacking","tag-hacking","tag-internet","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-us-treasury-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}