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		TobbenTM on May 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WannaCry – New Variants Detected And why would they not then use randomly generated domain names, instead of hardcoding domains that could be registered?

DougBTX on May 14, 2017 | [–]

The MalwareTech article that documents this best, https://www.malwaretech.com/2017/05/how-to-accidentally-stop... , uses Necurs as an example of a trojan that uses randomly generated domain names, so probably not at technical reason.

scottmf on May 14, 2017 | [–]

Good point, although randomly generated domain names can exist.

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