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> Consistent with a nation-state cyber-espionage effort, the attacker primarily sought information related to certain government customers. If this was the pri
by Ansil849 6y ago
> Consistent with a nation-state cyber-espionage effort, the attacker primarily sought information related to certain government customers.
If this was the primary objective of the attackers, why is it buried in the seventh paragraph of FireEye's blogpost, after a lengthy discussion of the attackers targeting -- though apparently not primarily targeting -- FireEye's internal tooling?
- marcinzm 6y agoBecause the tooling getting out impacts everyone and thus warrants a public post. Some government information being stolen only impact those customers and only warrants notifying those customers.
- Ansil849 6y agoInformation pertaining to government customers invariably impacts civilians under that governance (and potentially civilians outside of it).
- marcinzm 6y agoWhich would be the responsibility of the government customer to disclose to those impacted. FireEye is likely under many contracts that prohibit it from giving out any details on what client data was stolen. Without those details the information is essentially worthless to the public. Who knows if they got the pin number to the VA men's bathroom or all your social security records.