‘Forest Blizzard’ vs ‘Fancy Bear’: Microsoft, Google, Crowdstrike hope to untangle weird hacker nicknames

Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto and Alphabet’s Google on Monday said they would create a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups and cybercriminals, in a bid to ease confusion over the menagerie of unofficial nicknames for them. Microsoft and CrowdStrike said they hoped to potentially bring other industry partners and the U.S. government into the effort to identify Who’s Who in the murky world of digital espionage.