The DNA-based attack was a little contrived. They deliberately introduced a vulnerability into a post-processing tool, then generated a DNA sequence that abuse

The DNA-based attack was a little contrived. They deliberately introduced a vulnerability into a post-processing tool, then generated a DNA sequence that abused it. It’s a creative idea but it would be fairly difficult find and use exploits in the wild. Sequencing has gotten a lot cheaper but it’s still going to cost tens-to-thousands of dollars per attempt, so you can’t do the genomic equivalent of packet stuffing on the cheap. (Nevertheless, it is true that a lot of biology-related code is not great but...)