Attackers use typo-squatting, obfuscation, and fake accounts to slip Python-based malware into open-source projects, raising ...

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As a countermeasure, Stenberg's Curl project has added a special CI job that checks where Unicode is allowed and where it is not. According to Stenberg, GitHub has also taken on the problem and ...

The rise of HCL and Shell as top languages on GitHub reinforces that ops-focused code is a growing share of open source activity. In practical terms, enterprises are standardizing on these open ...

A sophisticated cascading supply chain attack has compromised multiple GitHub Actions, exposing critical CI/CD secrets across tens of thousands of repositories. The attack, which originally target ...

In a nutshell: A recent blog post by software engineer Paul Butler has shed light on a novel technique for concealing data within Unicode characters, specifically emojis. The post explains the ...

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new digital skimmer campaign that leverages Unicode obfuscation techniques to conceal a skimmer dubbed Mongolian Skimmer. "At first glance, the thing ...

In an interesting twist, the filename makes use of the hidden right-to-left override (RLO) Unicode character (U+202E) to reverse the order of the characters that come after that character in the ...

I get this: [["Branches \u0026amp; Birds Colour","Leaf Green"],...] The ampersand is converted into & then the & is unicode encoded... This appears to be the way all properties are encoded in the line ...

MacOS's built-in Unicode Hex Input layout has a bug where all characters with a code both starting ending in 0 will not output anything. For example the character à is code 00E0 and is impossible to ...