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Hackers Can Hide Images in Text Data and Embeds Directly into DNS TXT Records

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Submitted ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨cm0002@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨cybersecurity@infosec.pub⁩

https://cybersecuritynews.com/hiding-images-in-dns-txt-records/

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  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • dotslashme@infosec.pub ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn’t stop to think if you should.

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