Naming Adversaries and Why It Matters to Your Security Team

This blog was originally published by CrowdStrike here. Written by Bart Lenaerts-Bergmans, CrowdStrike. What is it with these funny adversary names such as FANCY BEAR, WIZARD SPIDER and DEADEYE JACKAL? You read about them in the media and see them referenced by MITRE in the ATT&CK framework. Why are they so important to cyber defenders? How is an adversary born? You may think you have a problem with ransomware, bots or distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, but you would …

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