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unknown threats. Another technique, which
will be the focus of this article, is the rapid
and widespread creation of new domains
in order to evade reputation checks and
signature-based detection.
The recent surge in
domain creation
While traditional tools have to rely on
identifying campaigns and patterns across
multiple emails to establish whether or not
an email is malicious, cyber AI technology
doesn’t require classifying emails into
buckets in order to know they don’t belong.
There is no need, therefore, to actively track
campaigns. But as security researchers, it’s
hard to miss some trends.
Since the Coronavirus outbreak, we have
seen the number of domains registered
related to COVID-19 increase by 130,000. In
this time, 60% of all spear phishing threats
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