- Microsoft announces a new threat
- Microsoft and Crowdstrike have already crossed into 130 groups
- The tracking groups will now be easier and will help security suppliers to respond
If you are struggling to monitor all the different names of each piracy group, ransomware and threats sponsored by the state that the actor has, it is not alone.
Microsoft and Crowdstrike have announced a new collaboration to help create a unified nomenclature system to track all worst piracy groups.
The system will help save beautiful seconds when responding to cyber attacks providing a unified name system to be used by authorities, security experts, companies and security suppliers.
Unified hacker appointment
Currently, if I tried to track the activities of the Salt Typhoon group, it is possible that it must also be aware of the names of the others used to track the same group, such as the Panda, Ghostemperor and FamosSparrow operator. This inconsistency in nameing “can reduce trust, complicate analysis and delay the answer,” Microsoft said.
As part of the collaboration, Microsoft has launched a reference guide that not only presents Microsoft name conventions, but also includes other names given to the most notorious piracy groups by other security suppliers.
This guide broken down to the actors of the nation-state in their geographical location using names with climatic themes such as suffix, such as the typhoon for China, and Blizzard for Russia.
Other groups, such as influence campaigns (flood), financially motivated groups (Tempest) and commercial cybersecurity (Tsunami) developers, are also traced using thematic names of the weather event.
Groups that do not have an affiliation, motivation or known groups that have recently arisen are traced as a storm.
Google and its subsidiary Mandiant will also contribute to the allocation of names of piracy groups, together with Unit 42 of Palo Alto Networks.
“Security is a shared responsibility, which requires efforts from the entire community to improve defensive measures. We are excited to associate with Crowdstrike and we hope that others join us on this trip,” Microsoft said.
