The Matsnu botnet has deployed a new domain generation algorithm that builds domain names from a list of nouns and verbs. The plain English phrases help the DGA elude detection.

Botnet #14 removes DGA to everyone's surprise. But to everyone's surprise, in less than a week, the DGA feature had been removed, as the same MalwareTech had also observed.

Security researchers this week will detail a prototype system they say can better detect so-called Domain Name Generation- (DGA) based botnets such as Conficker and Kraken without the usual labor ...

Microsoft also gained control over the domains ZLoader used for its domain generation algorithm (DGA), which are used to automatically create new domains for the botnet's C2.

The Monkif/DIKhora botnet, which is pushing out Trojan downloaders to infected machines, is encoding the instructions to appear as if the command-and-control server is returning a JPEG image file ...

A new update to the FreakOut (aka Necro, N3Cr0m0rPh) Python botnet has added a recently published PoC exploit for Visual Tools DVR in its arsenal to further aid in breaching systems.

ESET has collaborated with partners Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, and others in an attempt to disrupt known Zloader botnets.ESET ...

Microsoft has revealed it was part of a team that took down the Necurs botnet. The network had infected over nine million devices worldwide, making it one of the world's largest botnets.

Customizable DGA modules are now available for some of the most popular crimeware packs, such as ZeuS, which means each botnet based on them will contact its own list of domain names.