DNS TXT records, originally designed for arbitrary text data such as email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) and domain verification, have become a target for cybercriminals. Attackers encode malware ...

A new finance spam campaign with HTML attachments has been discovered that utilizes Google's public DNS resolver to retrieve JavaScript commands embedded in a domain's TXT record. These commands will ...

Newly published research shows that the domain name system—a fundamental part of the web—can be exploited to hide malicious code and prompt injection attacks against chatbots. Hackers are stashing ...

Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most defenses—inside domain name system (DNS) records that map domain names to their corresponding numerical IP addresses.

Malware researchers have come across a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that uses a novel technique to evade detection on corporate networks by fetching malicious PowerShell commands stored inside a ...