Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-12-08 00:00:00
Affected organization: FireEye
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: SVR (COZYBEAR)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: FireEye has revealed that a nation-state hacking group has accessed its systems and stolen hacking tools it uses for penetration testing. Later it was revealed that FireEye was breached as a result of the SolarWinds hack.