Technology that blocks DGA domains | Kaspersky official blog

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We use many technologies to detect email spam. They analyze every part of a message: headers, text, images, and links. But the first thing our email products focus on is the “From” field. If the address contains a domain that’s already on our denylist, it’s an easy call. But spammers know the drill, so they register domains in industrial quantities to make emails, even from a single campaign, arrive from completely different addresses. Clearly, they don’t do that by hand. The process has long been automated, and attackers’ algorithms can register huge numbers of domains in a matter of minutes…