Gurgaon, June 3 -- CrowdStrike and Microsoft have announced a collaborative effort to standardise how cyber threat actors are identified and tracked across the cybersecurity industry. The initiative focuses on creating a shared mapping framework that connects threat actor aliases across vendor platforms, aiming to streamline attribution and improve response efforts.

Cybersecurity vendors have historically developed their naming conventions for threat actors based on individual intelligence sources and analytic methods. While these naming systems offer valuable context, they can create confusion when cross-referencing data across platforms. The lack of alignment complicates threat intelligence correlation and slows down defensive actions....