Case Study on PreCrime™ Intelligence
How Quad9 stopped a global botnet attack a month in advance
About the company
Quad9 is a free service that replaces your default ISP or Domain Name Server (DNS) configuration. When a computer performs any Internet transaction that uses the DNS (and most transactions do), Quad9 blocks lookups of malicious hostnames from an up-to-the-minute list of threats. This blocking action protects homes and businesses networks, mobile device, or IoT systems against a wide range of threats such as malware, phishing, spyware, and botnets.
In their quest for continuous improvement Quad9 was seeking to:
- Add value to existing users and enhance coverage of their Protective DNS.
- Benefit from a streamlined experience, ensuring actionable intel, with few false positives.
- Leverage a “low-touch”, automated solution that could predict and accurately alert on malicious domain infrastructure.
That’s when Quad9 turns to BforeAI.
How Quad9 is protecting their business with PreCrime Intelligence:
BforeAI and Quad9 forged a partnership to augment Quad9’s protective DNS with PreCrime Intelligence predictive cyberthreat intelligence.
The integration of BforeAI and Quad9 provides more than 30,000 new and unique future cyber threat indicators, enabling their customers to be protected from cyber attacks before they even start.
PreCrime Intelligence is BforeAI’s predictive attack intelligence solution. Our behavioral AI goes beyond reactive blocklists to equip your team with the most extensive dataset of future malicious infrastructure, better arming your security stack to deny malicious traffic in near real-time before they launch attacks.
(Day 1) In November 2021, BforeAI predicted the malicious domain yuansuo(dot)xyz. Quad9 takes preemptive action and blocks maliciously domains predicted by BforeAI (Day 30) Quad9 registered more than 365 million hits from the identified malicious domain. Within 24 hours, the attack produced 94,000 unique resolutions per minute.
When the attacks came, BforeAI made sure Quad9 was ready:
24
Hour attack
0.05%
False positive rate
94K
Unique resolutions per minute
To this day, Quad9 remains protected with PreCrime Intelligence!
When time and accuracy matter, BforeAI has you covered. Anticipation and better predictive tools can make a difference in fighting domain name abuse, where time and accuracy are key factors. PreCrime predictive technology help organizations prevent intrusions and data exfiltration by predicting vectors of future.
"Each and every one of these threat blocking events saves a user from being harmed..."
– Danielle Deibler, Director of Threat Intelligence at Quad9
“We’re excited to add BforeAI to the Quad9 threat-intelligence portfolio and are impressed with the significant ‘win’ that was visible so soon after our deployment of their threat intelligence feed.
Each and every one of these threat blocking events saves a user from being harmed, and we’re pleased to be able to offer the benefits of BforeAI’s predictive threat technology to everyone.”