Second, when a firm decides to name a new cyber threat, it should also publish a public threat report about it. Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder of Crowdstrike, presented a paper in 2014 listing ...

Don’t let the cute name fool you. Script kiddies are threat actors without the skill or knowledge required to design bespoke penetration tools, and yet will happily purchase or borrow the tools ...

That’s because the more a threat actor knows about a person, the more he or she and the company they are working for are vulnerable to attack, he said. How Work-from-Home Photos Can Be Misused ...

Threat intelligence highlights IoCs around an attack, such as that the actor was using cheap outsourced labour to perpetuate the attack, was using a particular hosting platform, or shared ...

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. (CRWD) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) have partnered to enhance the identification and classification of cyber threat actors across the cybersecurity landscape. The ...

The effort begins with CrowdStrike and Microsoft’s threat research teams working together to align their naming systems. Already, they have reconciled over 80 threat actor names. For example, ...

The partnership creates a shared mapping system that aligns threat actor attribution across both companies’ intelligence ecosystems. The goal is simple — eliminate the delays and confusion ...

Before Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, outside observers expected cyber attacks to play a large role in the conflict. Despite Russia’s strong cyber capabilities, however, there has been ...

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