[LINK] Standard for naming viruses after storms

[Tom Worthington]

Recently I stumbled across Microsoft Defender's list of computer 
security threats. These were all named after types of weather, such as 
Amethyst Rain, Antique Typhoon, Aqua Blizzard, Berry Sandstorm and Blue 
Tsunami.

I wondered if the type of meteorological event correspond to the 
severity of attack. These names didn't correspond to the Computer 
Antivirus Research Organization (CARO) malware naming: appear to cover 
this. https://bontchev.nlcv.bas.bg/papers/naming.html

It turns out Microsoft names nations after weather: Blizzard (Russia), 
Typhoon (China), Sandstorm (Iran) all the way down to Waterspout 
(Australia): 
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/unified-secops/microsoft-threat-actor-naming



-- 
Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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