Submission + - Hacker Group Chat Logs Reveal the Hacked Antivirus Vendors, AVs Respond (bleepingcomputer.com) 1
guardiangod writes: A report last week about Fxmsp hacker group claiming access to the networks and source code of three antivirus companies with offices in the U.S. generated from alleged victims statements that are disputed by the firm that sounded the alarm.
Up until this week, the names of the victims remained undisclosed to the public due to the sensitive nature of the matter and because authorities had been alerted of the incidents.
But the cat's out of the bag right now, as the victim antivirus companies (Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro) have released statements that either downplay, contradict the findings, or have decided to neither deny nor confirm the incident.
Is Trend Micro aware of the breach? How did you get access? TrendMicro do not know about it? Fxmsp: 90% they have no idea Fmxsp: we got it covertly Fmxsp: yes [we] targeted them specifically Fxmsp: [there was a] vulnerability Fmxsp: they have no idea they lost their source code Fxmsp: also McAfee has no idea we got them
