but fireeye used solarwinds software, which turned the cyber hunter into the prey. this past november one alert fireeye employee noticed something amiss. >> just like everybody working from home, we have two fact authentication. a code pops up on our code, we have to type in that code, and then we can log in. a fireeye employee was logging in, but the difference was our security staff looked at the log-in and we noticed that individual had two phones registered to their name. so our security employee called that person up, and we asked, hey, did you actually register a second device on our network? and our employee said no, it wasn't me. >> reporter: suspicious, fireeye turned its gaze inward and saw intruders impersonating its employees snooping around inside their network, stealing fireeye's proprietary tools to test its clients' defenses and intelligence reports on active cyberthreats. the hackers left no evidence of how they broke in. nofishi phishing expeditions. no malware. >> so how did you trace this back to solarwinds software? >> it was not easy. we took a

i have never been more bullish than now on fireeye.he side of our company that is growing faster and is more relevant is now the larger half. it is a law of numbers. we will have faster and faster aggregate growth every single quarter. emily: it was one analyst from piper stadler who said stocks were a positive catalyst. i hear your point. there is definitely the need for services and software you provide given this spate of massive cyberattacks. it has been one after the other. what is going on? have adversaries entered an entirely new era? >> it is a tough year. for all folks who make security their living, my hat is off to you. in some way, it is showing our security is getting better. you have to have implants to break in. we are responding to more zero day based attacks or attacks where there is simply no patch available for them. more this year than the last few years combined. we are not finding them soon enough. there is usually a victim or two to the zero day. we have been armed. they have been found by bad actors. we are runn

. ♪ ♪ >> shannon: some good news before we say good night, this stray dog, he went to fireeye after healing the uniform from a dollar store. animal control forced to remove the dog because he kept trying to steal the unicorn five times the officer went to pick them up, ended up buying him his favorite unicorn, it animal services then posted pictures of him cuddling, posing, hanging out with his purple unicorn. he was adopted by one of his admirers. if by the way, dollar general donating several bags of pet food to the shelter. do you know i'm a sucker for dog stories. >> i hope you like this one. i want to take you to the volunteer state of tennessee. it's been a tough year for a lot of high school students, especially seniors getting ready for senior pictures. if you don't know how to tie a tie, it can be really intimidating. enter officer adam. he saw a couple of kids over at a park, their godmother was trying to help them out and teach them how to tie a tie, one thing led to another, elisha darling and jay lynn lewis getting help officer adam. he's just patrolling the area, he was a

>> well, there is a standard we talked to fireeye about this yesterday and they told us something interestingst you have to figure out exactly how badly compromised you are as an ongoing concern, is your business threatened. if it is existential, if your company can't exist without the data, a lot of companies decide they have to pay if you feel you have a work around and you can tolerate some of the data leaking out, you simply tell the hackers to get lost and don't pay them. one of the interesting things those that fire-eye raised with us is the possibility that this public sort of shaming of apple on the dark web might be the result of a failed negotiation that already took place. that is they tried to get paid, didn't get paid, and are simply banging their chest now and putting out some apple documents as a way of getting some attention for themselves and maybe prompting some other targets in the future to pay this might not be about trying to get apple to pay necessarily, but just to set the tone for corporate america generally. we can get everybody, including the big guy, so the next on

voluntarily came forward with this information about solarwinds, we might not still have known if fireeyee level with critical government infrastructure to have mandatory reporting. so i applaud biden for taking steps forward but we also have to take these domestic actions as well. >> we heard from the treasury department the first administration verification that in the 2016 election that the polling data that was given by paul manafort and rick gates, the two guys in charge of the trump campaign at that time, they gave polling information to konstantin kilimnik. he gave that information to the russians. he gave that information to the russians. it's in writing now as part of the sanctions. you, obviously, were deeply involved with various senate investigations into this. what's the significance of that, that direct connection from the trump campaign to kilimnik to the russians? the significance of that? >> well, it shows what our bipartisan senate intelligence committee investigation showed. that the russians were intimately involved with the trump 2016 campaign, whether trump knowingly