So FireEye is a big cybersecurity company. They were hacked and got all of their offensive hacking tools stolen. Both their statements and the FBI says that the hacker was probably a foreign government because it was a really sophisticated attack, but they never publicly says it was Russia. Some of the articles about this don't even mention Russia (https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/tech/fireeye-cyberattack/index.html).

The NYT says, with no discernible sources, that:

" The hack raises the possibility that Russian intelligence agencies saw an advantage in mounting the attack while American attention — including FireEye’s — was focused on securing the presidential election system. At a moment that the nation’s public and private intelligence systems were seeking out breaches of voter registration systems or voting machines, it may have a been a good time for those Russian agencies, which were involved in the 2016 election breaches, to turn their sights on other targets."

  • socii [none/use name,any]
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    4 years ago

    funny how the news ignores that France goes just as hard as China or Russia when it comes to industrial espionage

    • mayor_pete_buttigieg [she/her]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Also in the cybersecurity world Israel and Israeli companies are some of the worst threats out there.