Mandiant researcher doxed by hackers; FireEye counters claim that internal info dumped
A hacker claiming to have compromised cybersecurity firm Mandiant published a trove of leaked emails Sunday apparently connected to a single employee’s personal computer. While the attacker boasted of breaking into the company’s corporate network, the available evidence only suggests that a personal computer, which stored some work documents, was hacked. “It was fun to be inside a giant company named ‘Mandiant’ we enjoyed watching how they try to protect their clients and how their dumb analysts are trying to reverse engineer malwares and stuffs,” the hacker’s message reads. “Now that ‘Mandiant’ knows how deep we breached into its infrastructure its so-called threat analysts are trying to block us. Let’s see how successful they are going to be :D.” In a statement provided to CyberScoop, a spokesperson for Mandiant’s parent company FireEye said: “We are aware of reports that a Mandiant employee’s social media accounts were compromised. We immediately began […]
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