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For six years, Sophos fought a secret cyber war against a state-backed hacking group targeting its firewalls. This forced Sophos to drastically change tactics to properly secure their firewalls. Was it ethical? Was it effective? They disrupted nine zero-day attacks, exposed who was hacking them, and forced the hackers to change tactics. But at what cost? You have to listen to one of the most audacious corporate cyber defenses ever conducted.
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They pushed out a hotfix to these firewalls. A hotfix is like a little software patch that can run in real time. They can live update all the firewalls remotely with these hotfixes.
“Sophos discovered that the threat actors T Stark and G Big Mal were also accessing Sophos the site logging in and reading the knowledge base articles too to see what got patched and they were reading exactly what Sophos had fixed and then developed exploits to get around those patches”
“the truth is like who else helps these organizations that organization Tibet had nowhere near enough resource to be able to deal with this they were lucky that Vilexity had been doing some pro bono work there”
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