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Comment by charcircuit

19 hours ago

It is very common for malware to use recently registered addresses. They absolutely should be using it as a heuristic.

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taco_emoji  18 hours ago

Yeah fair, I guess I should've said they shouldn't be weighting it so strongly in the heuristic (if that's even at play in this case).

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