“We don’t unfortunately call them scrawny nuisance or weak weasel or feeble ferret or, my personal favorite, doofus dingo.”

Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, regarding the power that names, like Scattered Spider and Midnight Blizzard, can give to threat groups and criminals, while simultaneously undermining strategic priorities. Bad actors don’t have superpowers, Easterly told attendees. “Most of the time they are using the same old vulnerabilities, and sometimes they just get lucky.” (Cybersecurity Drive — Aug. 15, 2024)