Could malicious backdoors be hiding in your code, that otherwise appears perfectly clean to the human eye and text editors alike? A security researcher has shed light on how invisible characters can ...

The old RLO trick of exploiting how Unicode handles script ordering and a related homoglyph attack can imperceptibly switch the real name of malware. Researchers have found a new way to encode ...

If you're using the Rust programming language — or JavaScript, Java, Go or Python — in a project, you may want to check for potential differences between reviewed code versus the compiled code that's ...

Threat actors are finding new ways to insert invisible code or links into open source code to evade detection of software supply chain attacks. The latest example was found by researchers at ...

I’d expect this to come in linters and formatters before becoming a language requirement. For example, converting a string to the explicit Unicode escape sequences or Python’s \N{UNICODE NAME} syntax ...

I've been working on a project on and off and it's gotten to the stage where coworkers are wanting to view my code. I copied the entire project folder onto the network and assumed they'd be able to ...