- Microsoft announces a new follow -up partnership of the threatening actor name
- Microsoft and Crowdsstrike have already reticulated more than 130 groups
- Follow -up groups will now be easier and will help security suppliers respond
If you have trouble keeping a trace of all the different names of each piracy collective, a group of ransomware and actor of threat sponsored by the state, you are not alone.
Microsoft and Crowdsstrike have announced a new collaboration to help create a unified name system to follow all the worst hacking groups.
The system will help save valuable seconds during the response to cyber attacks by providing a unified name system to be used by authorities, security experts, companies and security suppliers.
Unified name for pirates
Currently, if you are trying to follow the activities of the Salt Typhoon group, you may also have to be aware of the other names used to follow the same group, such as the operator Panda, Ghosttempeor and Famoussparrow. This inconsistency in the name “can reduce confidence, complicate the analysis and delay the answer,” said Microsoft.
As part of the collaboration, Microsoft has published a reference guide that not only presents Microsoft’s names, but also includes other names given to the most notorious hacking groups by other security suppliers.
This guide breaks down the actors of the nation state in their geographic location using names on the theme of bad weather such as suffix, such as typhoon for China and Blizzard for Russia.
Other groups, such as influence campaigns (floods), financial motivation groups (Tempest) and cyber-armes’ business developers (tsunami) are also followed using names on the theme of meteorological events.
Groups that do not have an affiliation, motivation or known groups that have recently emerged are followed as Storm.
Google and their mandiant subsidiary will also contribute to the cartography of piracy group names, alongside Palo Alto Networks Unit 42.
“Security is a shared responsibility, requiring community -scale efforts to improve defensive measures. We are delighted to team up with Crowdstrike and rejoice that others join us on this trip, “said Microsoft.
