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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
CrowdStrike and Microsoft Collaborate to Harmonize Cyber Threat Attribution
Landmark industry collaboration maps threat actor aliases across vendors to accelerate response and strengthen global cyberdefense AUSTIN, Texas, June 02, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) and Microsoft today announced a collaboration to bring clarity and coordination to how cyber threat actors are identified and tracked across security vendors. By mapping threat actor aliases and aligning adversary attribution across platforms, the collaboration minimizes confusion caused by different naming systems and accelerates cyber defenders' response against today's and tomorrow's most sophisticated adversaries. The cybersecurity industry has developed multiple naming systems for threat actors, each grounded in unique vantage points, intelligence sources, and analytic rigor. These taxonomies provide critical adversary context to help organizations understand the threats they face, who is targeting them, and why. But as the adversary landscape grows, so does the complexity of cross-vendor attribution. Through this deeper collaboration, CrowdStrike and Microsoft have developed a shared mapping system – a 'Rosetta Stone' for cyber threat intelligence – that links adversary identifiers across vendor ecosystems without mandating a single naming standard. By reducing ambiguity in how adversaries are labeled, this mapping enables defenders to make faster, more confident decisions, correlate threat intelligence across sources, and better disrupt threat actor activity before it causes harm. By making it easier to connect naming conventions like COZY BEAR and Midnight Blizzard, the mapping supports quicker decision-making and unified threat response across taxonomies. "This is a watershed moment for cybersecurity. Adversaries hide behind both technology and the confusion created by inconsistent naming. As defenders, it's our job to stay ahead and to give security teams clarity on who is targeting them and how to respond. This has been CrowdStrike's mission from day one," said Adam Meyers, Head of Counter Adversary Operations at CrowdStrike. "CrowdStrike is the leader in adversary intelligence, and Microsoft brings one of the most valuable data sources on adversary behavior. Together, we're combining strengths to deliver clarity, speed, and confidence to defenders everywhere." The collaboration will start with a shared analyst-led effort to harmonize adversary naming between CrowdStrike and Microsoft's threat research teams. Through this collaboration, the companies have already deconflicted more than 80 adversaries, including validating threat actors like Microsoft's Volt Typhoon and CrowdStrike's VANGUARD PANDA are Chinese state-sponsored threat actors, and that Secret Blizzard and VENOMOUS BEAR refer to the same Russia-nexus adversary. This demonstrates the real-world value of shared attribution. Moving forward, CrowdStrike and Microsoft will continue working together to expand this effort, inviting other partners to contribute to and maintain a shared threat actor mapping resource for the global cybersecurity community. "Cybersecurity is a defining challenge of our time, especially in today's AI-driven era," said Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security. "Microsoft and CrowdStrike are in ideal positions to help our customers, and the wider defender community accelerate the benefits of actionable threat intelligence. Security is a team sport and when defenders can share and react to information faster it makes a difference in how we protect the world." This collaboration builds on each company's deep history of threat intelligence leadership and advances a shared mission: delivering better outcomes for defenders by putting customers first and the mission before the market. To learn more about the CrowdStrike and Microsoft collaboration on cyber threat attribution, please visit our blog. About CrowdStrike CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world's most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value. CrowdStrike: We stop breaches. Learn more: Follow us: Blog | X | LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram Start a free trial today: © 2025 CrowdStrike, Inc. All rights reserved. CrowdStrike and CrowdStrike Falcon are marks owned by CrowdStrike, Inc. and are registered in the United States and other countries. CrowdStrike owns other trademarks and service marks and may use the brands of third parties to identify their products and services. View source version on Contacts Media Contacts: Jake SchusterCrowdStrike Corporate Communicationspress@ Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Techday NZ
4 days ago
- Techday NZ
CrowdStrike & Microsoft unify naming for cyber threat actors
CrowdStrike and Microsoft have jointly introduced a new initiative aimed at standardising the way cyber threat actors are identified across the cybersecurity sector. The collaboration has resulted in a shared mapping system, aligning threat actor aliases between the two companies and promoting clarity in cyber threat attribution. Both companies state that this initiative is designed to accelerate threat response and reduce confusion caused by the inconsistent nicknames used for hacker groups among different security vendors. The cybersecurity industry has historically relied on disparate naming systems, each informed by distinct intelligence sources and analytical approaches. While these systems provide valuable context on adversaries, they can complicate cross-reference and response due to conflicting terminology. This increased complexity has prompted the need for a unified approach to threat actor attribution. CrowdStrike and Microsoft's joint mapping project serves as a form of 'Rosetta Stone' for cyber threat intelligence, linking adversary identifiers across their respective ecosystems without imposing a single nomenclature. By connecting aliases—such as CrowdStrike's COZY BEAR and Microsoft's Midnight Blizzard, or VANGUARD PANDA and Volt Typhoon—the mapping facilitates quicker and better-coordinated responses to sophisticated adversaries. According to CrowdStrike, the partners have already reconciled over 80 threat group aliases. The alignment expands to groups linked to major nation-state actors. For example, the companies have confirmed that Microsoft's Volt Typhoon and CrowdStrike's VANGUARD PANDA refer to the same China-nexus actor, while Secret Blizzard and VENOMOUS BEAR designate a Russia-linked group. Adam Meyers, Head of Counter Adversary Operations at CrowdStrike, commented on the significance of the collaboration. "This is a watershed moment for cybersecurity. Adversaries hide behind both technology and the confusion created by inconsistent naming. As defenders, it's our job to stay ahead and to give security teams clarity on who is targeting them and how to respond. This has been CrowdStrike's mission from day one," Meyers said. "CrowdStrike is the leader in adversary intelligence, and Microsoft brings one of the most valuable data sources on adversary behavior. Together, we're combining strengths to deliver clarity, speed, and confidence to defenders everywhere." The initial phase of the collaboration involves specialist teams from both companies working together to harmonise adversary naming conventions. The effort has already demonstrated practical value by validating the identities of specific threat actors across the two ecosystems. The companies will seek to expand this initiative, inviting additional contributors to create and maintain a broader threat actor mapping resource accessible to the global cybersecurity community. Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Security, emphasised the broader implications for the security sector. "Cybersecurity is a defining challenge of our time, especially in today's AI-driven era," Jakkal said. "Microsoft and CrowdStrike are in ideal positions to help our customers, and the wider defender community accelerate the benefits of actionable threat intelligence. Security is a team sport and when defenders can share and react to information faster it makes a difference in how we protect the world." The companies note that their collaboration builds on an established history of threat intelligence activity and contributes towards a shared mission: prioritising customer outcomes and sector-wide defence, rather than market competition. The mapping initiative will continue to develop as more partners join to keep the threat actor taxonomy up to date and useful for the defender community. Follow us on: Share on:
Business Wire
4 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
CrowdStrike and Microsoft Collaborate to Harmonize Cyber Threat Attribution
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) and Microsoft today announced a collaboration to bring clarity and coordination to how cyber threat actors are identified and tracked across security vendors. By mapping threat actor aliases and aligning adversary attribution across platforms, the collaboration minimizes confusion caused by different naming systems and accelerates cyber defenders' response against today's and tomorrow's most sophisticated adversaries. The cybersecurity industry has developed multiple naming systems for threat actors, each grounded in unique vantage points, intelligence sources, and analytic rigor. These taxonomies provide critical adversary context to help organizations understand the threats they face, who is targeting them, and why. But as the adversary landscape grows, so does the complexity of cross-vendor attribution. Through this deeper collaboration, CrowdStrike and Microsoft have developed a shared mapping system – a 'Rosetta Stone' for cyber threat intelligence – that links adversary identifiers across vendor ecosystems without mandating a single naming standard. By reducing ambiguity in how adversaries are labeled, this mapping enables defenders to make faster, more confident decisions, correlate threat intelligence across sources, and better disrupt threat actor activity before it causes harm. By making it easier to connect naming conventions like COZY BEAR and Midnight Blizzard, the mapping supports quicker decision-making and unified threat response across taxonomies. 'This is a watershed moment for cybersecurity. Adversaries hide behind both technology and the confusion created by inconsistent naming. As defenders, it's our job to stay ahead and to give security teams clarity on who is targeting them and how to respond. This has been CrowdStrike's mission from day one,' said Adam Meyers, Head of Counter Adversary Operations at CrowdStrike. 'CrowdStrike is the leader in adversary intelligence, and Microsoft brings one of the most valuable data sources on adversary behavior. Together, we're combining strengths to deliver clarity, speed, and confidence to defenders everywhere.' The collaboration will start with a shared analyst-led effort to harmonize adversary naming between CrowdStrike and Microsoft's threat research teams. Through this collaboration, the companies have already deconflicted more than 80 adversaries, including validating threat actors like Microsoft's Volt Typhoon and CrowdStrike's VANGUARD PANDA are Chinese state-sponsored threat actors, and that Secret Blizzard and VENOMOUS BEAR refer to the same Russia-nexus adversary. This demonstrates the real-world value of shared attribution. Moving forward, CrowdStrike and Microsoft will continue working together to expand this effort, inviting other partners to contribute to and maintain a shared threat actor mapping resource for the global cybersecurity community. 'Cybersecurity is a defining challenge of our time, especially in today's AI-driven era,' said Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security. 'Microsoft and CrowdStrike are in ideal positions to help our customers, and the wider defender community accelerate the benefits of actionable threat intelligence. Security is a team sport and when defenders can share and react to information faster it makes a difference in how we protect the world.' This collaboration builds on each company's deep history of threat intelligence leadership and advances a shared mission: delivering better outcomes for defenders by putting customers first and the mission before the market. To learn more about the CrowdStrike and Microsoft collaboration on cyber threat attribution, please visit our blog. About CrowdStrike CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world's most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value. CrowdStrike: We stop breaches. © 2025 CrowdStrike, Inc. All rights reserved. CrowdStrike and CrowdStrike Falcon are marks owned by CrowdStrike, Inc. and are registered in the United States and other countries. CrowdStrike owns other trademarks and service marks and may use the brands of third parties to identify their products and services.
