State-Backed Hacker Group Sought Information For Espionage, FireEye Official Says

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The recently disclosed cyber intrusion of government and private sector networks by a statebackedhacking group was motivated by espionage and the types of stolen informationindicates it was to benefit “multiple government priorities,” an official with the cyber securityfirm FireEye [FEYE] said on Tuesday.FireEye, which in December first reported the breach of its own networks and others, has seenUNC2452 target internal documents, intellectual property and emails, but they aren’t “grabbingall information” on the networks it has infiltrated, Benjamin Read, director of Threat IntelligentAnalysis for the company’s Mandiant division, said during a webinar the company hosted.