Fast flux
Rotating the addresses behind a domain within minutes, so blocking an address never removes the service. A resilience technique, applied to infrastructure that expects to be reported.
Why it matters to you
Address-based blocking decays fast against flux. Blocking at the name, and watching how quickly a name's answers change, holds up better than any single indicator.
Where we meet it
Rotation speed is itself a reading, and it is only visible if you keep the history rather than the latest answer. Churn is one of the scores we carry on infrastructure for that reason.
Connected terms
Bulletproof hosting
Hosting sold on the promise that abuse complaints go unanswered and legal requests go unread. Priced well above ordinary hosting, because that indifference is the entire product.
Lookalike domain
A domain registered to be misread as someone else's: a swapped character, an extra hyphen, a different suffix. The cheapest piece of infrastructure in this economy and the one most often pointed at a brand.
C2 panel
The web console an operator uses to run infected machines: victims listed, tasks queued, output collected. Sold with the malware, screenshotted in the advertisement, and often the most revealing artifact a crew produces.
Read elsewhere
Where this term stops being vocabulary
Malveine is where you watch it happen to you
Knowing the word is the cheap half. The platform is the half where the term arrives attached to your domain, with a timestamp and the source it came from.
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Antidetect browser
A browser built to present a consistent, disposable fingerprint per profile: its own canvas, fonts, timezone and proxy. Sold so a stolen session can be replayed from a machine that looks like the victim's.
Bulletproof hosting
Hosting sold on the promise that abuse complaints go unanswered and legal requests go unread. Priced well above ordinary hosting, because that indifference is the entire product.
C2 panel
The web console an operator uses to run infected machines: victims listed, tasks queued, output collected. Sold with the malware, screenshotted in the advertisement, and often the most revealing artifact a crew produces.
Crypto mixer
A service that pools cryptocurrency from many senders and pays out from the pool, so that the link between an incoming and an outgoing transaction is broken. Charged as a percentage, sometimes with a delay bought separately.