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 ...

The internet runs on protocols that most people never think about. DNS, the Domain Name System, is one of them. It quietly powers everything from checking your email to streaming your favorite show.

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 ...

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 ...

Attackers are abusing the domain name system (DNS) to store and distribute malware, potentially creating blind spots for defenders, security researchers say. It turns out that files can be stored in ...