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MetaStealer traffic, new DGAs and analyzing the “tracker” backdoor DGA with AI
By Jason Reaves
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Jun 17, 2026
By: Jason Reaves and Joshua Platt
In this blog we simply want to highlight a few new additions to what appears to be related to MetaStealer, one is a new wordlist based DGA used by MetaStealer. We also want to highlight that MetaStealer’s proxies or ‘gates’ don’t actually care what domain gets used as it’s just a config item; they simply pass on the traffic to another server.
We also want to highlight a task that was seen delivered to a few bots which is related to MetaStealer but…
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