Yahoo Finance

ADAMnetworks Reveals Emerging Cybersecurity Threat: Hackers Exploit DNS TXT Records for Malware Delivery and Command-and-Control Channels

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 ...
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Malware was found hiding in DNS records – here’s why experts are alarmed

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.
Ars Technica

Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records

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.
Bleeping Computer

New Spam Campaign Controlled by Attackers via DNS TXT Records

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 ...