As the Internet has transformed into a critical infrastructure, society has become more
vulnerable to its security flaws. Despite substantial efforts to address many of these …

Malicious domains are one of the major resources required for adversaries to run attacks
over the Internet. Due to the important role of the Domain Name System (DNS), extensive …

Malicious URL, aka malicious website, is a common and serious threat to cybersecurity.
Malicious URLs host unsolicited content (spam, phishing, drive-by exploits, etc.) and lure …

Phishing is considered a great scourge in cyberspace. Presently, there are two major
challenges known with the existing anti-phishing solutions. Low detection rate and lack of …

Domain name system (DNS) is a crucial part of the Internet, yet has been widely exploited by
cyber attackers. Apart from making static methods like blacklists or sinkholes infeasible …

In this paper, the Search & Heuristic Rule & Logistic Regression (SHLR) combination
detection method is proposed for detecting the obfuscation techniques commonly used by …

abstract As the Internet has transformed into a critical infrastructure, society has become
more vulnerable to its security flaws. Despite substantial efforts to address many of these …

Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) sharing is growing in popularity and has become one of the
key functions to protect end-users and network services from sophisticated cyber attacks …

Leveraging DNS for covert communications is appealing since most networks allow DNS
traffic, especially the ones directed toward renowned DNS hosting services. Unfortunately …

Since the 1980s, domain names and the domain name system (DNS) have been used and
abused. Although legitimate Internet users rely on domain names as indispensable …