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Adaptive AI for Detecting Modern DGA Attacks

Alireza Sadighian is a Data Scientist at Enterprise Inverse, Akamai.

Liudmila Aleksandrova is a Senior Data Analyst at Enterprise Inverse, Akamai.

Darren Satkunas is Senior II Software Engineer Lead at Enterprise Inverse, Akamai.

Andrei Petrus is Director of Product Management at Enterprise Inverse, Akamai.

Key takeaways

Modern malware shapes a complex domain generation algorithm (DGA) threat landscape by using advanced DGAs that mimic natural language to successfully bypass traditional, static network defense mechanisms.

A hybrid deep learning framework combines a unique CNN-BiLSTM-Attention architecture to extract local structural patterns and model sequential context, effectively capturing complex dictionary-based domains.

To ensure high operational accuracy, the model was validated through extensive benchmark evaluation, minimizing false-positive rates to effectively reduce alert fatigue for enterprise security teams.

The system…