Helminth

Helminth is a communications tool for computers that may utilize specific DNS tunneling functions for connectivity over the Internet. In recent times, that date back to 2014, hackers have used Helminth to target government, energy, financial, and other industries in the Middle East for malicious purposes.

The malicious actions of Helminth range from attacks to circumvent data, steal data, or sequence data so a system can become compromised. In the many actions of Helminth hackers or cybercrooks could essentially intercept communications and employ DNS tunneling to instruct compromised systems to carry malicious actions.