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Hackers Can Hide Images in Text Data and Embeds Directly into DNS TXT Records (cybersecuritynews.com)

submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub

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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

How is this novel exactly? TXT is, and always has been, free form. It's the whole point. And converting a jpg to base64 isn't exactly ground breaking...

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It looks like the site is just AI generated crap based off of blog posts it scraped. "Cyber Security News" is about as generic as it gets.

[–] dotslashme@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago

Agreed, the title is unnecessarily click-baity as well, since it had nothing to do with hacking specifically.