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Crowdstrike. FireEye.


Definitely agree that Crowdstrikes naming veers past what is necessary.

They even draw up supervillain graphics for them.

https://www.crowdstrike.com/adversaries/arcane-kitten/


This is really cool and incredibly stupid.

Like, who is this made to appeal to? Is this meant to make corporate executive browsing for cybersecurity solutions feel like they're in a spy movie?


Cybersecurity professionals, in general, eat this stuff up.


This is wild. Ethereal Panda? Labyrinth Chollima?!

Why are we modelling threat actors/"adversaries" as a video game bestiary? Or meteorological phenomena in the case of MS?


Why not?




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