Unauthorized Access of FireEye Red Team Tools

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Overview

A highly sophisticated state-sponsored adversary stole FireEye Red
Team tools. Because we believe that an adversary possesses these
tools, and we do not know whether the attacker intends to use the
stolen tools themselves or publicly disclose them, FireEye is
releasing hundreds of countermeasures with this blog post to enable
the broader security community to protect themselves against these
tools. We have incorporated the countermeasures in our FireEye
products—and shared these countermeasures with partners, government
agencies—to significantly limit the ability of the bad actor to
exploit the Red Team tools.

You can find a list of the countermeasures on the FireEye GitHub
repository found

HERE
.

Red Team Tools and Techniques

A Red Team is a group of security professionals authorized and
organized to mimic a potential adversary’s attack or exploitation
capabilities against an enterprise’s security posture. Our Red Team’s
objective is to improve enterprise cyber security by demonstrating the
impacts of successful attacks and by showing the defenders (i.e., the
Blue Team) how to counter them in an operational environment. We have
been performing Red Team assessments for customers around the world
for over 15 years. In that time, we have built up a set of scripts,
tools, scanners, and techniques to help improve our clients’ security
postures. Unfortunately, these tools were stolen by a highly
sophisticated attacker.

The stolen tools range from simple scripts used for automating
reconnaissance to entire frameworks that are similar to publicly
available technologies such as CobaltStrike and Metasploit. Many of
the Red Team tools have already been released to the community and are
already distributed in our open-source virtual machine, CommandoVM.

Some of the tools are publicly available tools modified to evade
basic security detection mechanisms. Other tools and frameworks were
developed in-house for our Red Team.

No Zero-Day Exploits or Unknown Techniques

The Red Team tools stolen by the attacker did not contain zero-day
exploits. The tools apply well-known and documented methods that are
used by other red teams around the world. Although we do not believe
that this theft will greatly advance the attacker’s overall
capabilities, FireEye is doing everything it can to prevent such a scenario. 

It’s important to note that FireEye has not seen these tools
disseminated or used by any adversaries, and we will continue to
monitor for any such activity along with our security partners.

Detections to Help the Community

To empower the community to detect these tools, we are publishing
countermeasures to help organizations identify these tools if they
appear in the wild. In response to the theft of our Red Team tools, we
have released hundreds of countermeasures for publicly
available technologies like OpenIOC, Yara, Snort, and ClamAV.

A list of the countermeasure is available on the FireEye GitHub
repository found here.
We are releasing detections and will continue to update the public
repository with overlapping countermeasures for host, network, and
file-based indicators as we develop new or refine existing detections.
In addition, we are publishing a list of CVEs that need to be
addressed to limit the effectiveness of the Red Team tools on the
GitHub page.

FireEye Products Protect Customers Against These Tools

Teams across FireEye have worked to build the countermeasures to
protect our customers and the broader community. We have incorporated
these countermeasures into our products and shared these
countermeasures with our partners, including the Department of
Homeland Security, who have incorporated the countermeasures into
their products to provide broad coverage for the community.

More information on the detection signatures available can be found
in the GitHub repository.


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