‘Top-Tier Tradecraft’
“The campaign demonstrates top-tier operational tradecraft and resourcing consistent with state-sponsored threat actors,” FireEye said in the blog. “Based on our analysis, we have now identified multiple organizations where we see indications of compromise dating back to the Spring of 2020.”
All this suggests that as the US government was focused over the last several months on detecting and countering possible Russian interference in the US presidential election an effort that was largely viewed as successful suspected Russian hackers were quietly working their way into the computer networks of American government agencies and sensitive corporate victims undetected.
“If it is cyber espionage, it is one of the most effective cyber espionage operations we’ve seen in quite some time,” said John Hultquist, a senior director at FireEye.
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