src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7
- Source-provided label
- Not reported
- Evidence class
- mentioned in report
- Confidence
- Not reported
- Observed
- Jul 16, 2026 09:13 UTC
- Retrieved
- Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
From Indirect Prompt Injection to DNS Exfiltration in macOS Terminal
This is a follow-up to my previous Terminal DiLLMa research, and there is a positive outcome: Apple fixed a macOS Terminal behavior that enabled a DNS-based data exfiltration technique. DNS Requests via ANSI Escape Codes David Leadbeater originally discovered an interesting behavior in the macOS Terminal app that allowed a special sequence of ANSI escape codes to issue DNS requests. In short, this
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- Source category
- Research & news
- Report title
From Indirect Prompt Injection to DNS Exfiltration in macOS Terminal- First reported
- Jul 16, 2026 09:13 UTC
- Last reported
- Jul 16, 2026 09:13 UTC
- Catalog updated
- Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
- Record ID
ed547556834cdcf0152f449d6f194f0a790b58d659d13485635fdc81f8ce6fe4
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