Top-Tier Russian Hacking Collective Claims Breaches of Three Major Anti-Virus Companies A Russian hacking outfit says it has stolen confidential data from a trio of US antivirus companies. Security firm Advanced Intelligence (AdvIntel) has "high confidence" in the legitimacy of a posting from hacking group calling itself Fxmsp, which is advertising data and source code from the three unnamed AV companies. AdvIntel said it has already alerted law enforcement. "Fxmsp is a high-profile Russian and English-speaking hacking collective," AdvIntel said of the group. "They specialize in breaching highly secure protected networks to access private corporate and government information." AdvIntel says that late last month the group began advertising in various darknet forums that it had obtained network access and source code for the three companies and was selling its purloined loot for the sum of $300,000. In addition to source code and network access, the group says the 30TB data cache includes documentation about development plans and AI technology as well as information about web security and antivirus products. Further legitimizing the claim, says AdvIntel, is the fact that the hacking group has been dark for the last several months, indicating the crew was working on something big.
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"This period started with their seeming disappearance in October 2018 and concluded with their return in April 2019." While the methods of this intrusion are not yet known, AdvIntel notes that, in the past, Fxmps (who is either a million-dollar "hacking collective" or a guy from Moscow named Andrey, depending on who you ask) has used RDP and Active Directory to get into corporate networks.From there, the hackers harvest and export the data for sale on underground forums.