Citrix today warned its customers that foreign hackers romped through its internal company network and stole corporate secrets.
The enterprise software giant – which services businesses, the American military, and various US government agencies – said it was told by the FBI on Wednesday that miscreants had accessed Citrix’s IT systems and exfiltrated a significant amount of data.
According to infosec firm Resecurity, which had earlier alerted the Feds and Citrix to the cyber-intrusion, at least six terabytes of sensitive internal files were swiped from the US corporation by the Iranian-backed IRIDIUM hacker gang. The spies hit in December, and Monday this week, we’re told, lifting emails, blueprints, and other documents, after bypassing multi-factor login systems and slipping into Citrix’s VPNs.
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