Security News > 2022 > September > The web's cruising at 13 million new and nefarious domain names a month

Akamai reckons that, in the first half of 2022 alone, it flagged nearly 79 million newly observed domains as malicious.

According to the internet infrastructure giant, that amounts to 13 million malicious domain detections per month, equal to 20 percent of all successfully resolving NODs.

" is where you find freshly registered domain names, typos, and domains that are only very rarely queried on a global scale," Akamai said.

Akamai's methods of determining which domains are malicious or not are pretty straightforward.

For one approach, it looks at a list of known domain generation algorithms that, with help credited to the greater cybersecurity community, Akamai was able to build into a 30-year predictive list it can use to identify DGA-registered domains.

The idea being that if you need a bunch of random-looking domain names from which to launch attacks, run botnet command-and-control servers, or host malicious pages, you don't want those domains to be easily guessed and blocked by, say, network security filters.

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