<ul><li>Microsoft and Crowdstrike have announced a new collaboration to create a unified naming system for tracking hacking groups, making it easier for authorities, experts, businesses, and vendors to respond to cyberattacks.</li><li>The new naming system will help streamline the tracking of hacking groups and will provide a reference guide that includes Microsoft's naming conventions and other names given by security vendors.</li><li>Nation-state actors are categorized based on geographic locations using weather-themed suffixes, such as Typhoon for China and Blizzard for Russia, while other groups are tracked using weather event themed names like Flood, Tempest, and Tsunami.</li><li>Google, Mandiant, and Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 will also contribute to mapping hacking group names, aiming to improve defensive measures through community-wide efforts.</li></ul>

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