Our Anti-Malware DNS Service Query Tool is back online. Add during testing, we found a flaw in the way the return data from ClearCloud DNS was being parsed. It appears they have added redirect servers we were not aware of, so we have added those to the system, which should yield better metrics in their favor. When the tool started, ClearCloud was the leader by a longshot in blocking access to domains hosting malicious content, but soon fell into the background. This may explain that slide.

If you have not yet used the tool, please check it out here: http://minotauranalysis.com/tools/dnscheck.aspx

There are many new updates behind the scenes at Minotaur. For starters, as you can tell, we have a new look. Actually, this is an old look for anyone who has seen our internal servers, but we wanted to bring a consistent look and feel to the public side as well.

We have moved around a lot of our databases and are hoping to provide new stats and the ability to search for a sample soon. The database changes are the reason the collection system has been offline for a few days, but fear not, it is running full-steam now, and we should be getting some brand new samples from the crawls.

The anti-malware DNS resolver appears to be down. We are looking into this.

Minotaur now has ssh honeypots based on kippo installed and recording data.

Long-time friend of Minotaur, dyslexicjedi, has started a blog at http://www.dyslexicjedi.com/.

Lots of fixes going on behind the scenes.

If you find this system useful, please drop us a line at info@novcon.net. We’d love to hear from you.