Takedowns of malicious or fraudulent websites is a temporary fix for online fraud and crime, mainly because the bad guys then just put up another website domain they have waiting in the wings.

Researchers at Black Hat Europe in London tomorrow will demonstrate a new technique they developed that uses Domain Name Service (DNS) analysis to more efficiently spot illegal websites and online criminal operations. Andrew Lewman, chief revenue officer at Farsight Security, and Stevan Keraudy, CTO of CybelAngel, teamed up with an approach that detects, analyzes, and clusters illegal websites to better root out domain abuse.