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.

DGA-based malware botnets are hard to take down A DGA is an algorithm that generates a random domain name, which the malware uses to talk to its C&C server.

Cybersecurity researchers from Xlab have started tracking a new variant of the Vo1d malicious botnet which, in a span of just a couple of months, grew to roughly 1.6 million devices across 226 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

The PushDo malware, responsible for dropping the Cutwail botnet, is back with a domain generation algorithm (DGA) for better resiliency.

Microsoft and the others took down the botnet by breaking its domain generation algorithm (DGA), which generates random domain names that get turned into websites.

Abcbot botnet is linked to Xanthe cryptojacking group Researchers believe the focus is moving from cryptocurrency to traditional botnet attacks.