The Importance of Labeling Hacker Groups

Kevin Mandia, founder and CEO of the Cybersecurity for Mandiant says he's become more inured to silly hacker group names. The fog of war means analysts at different companies will never be sure they're looking at the same entities unless they all agree to openly share every scrap of their closely guarded intelligence. Last year, Perry Winkel Tempest launched crippling ransomware attacks across the entire nation of Costa Rica.