A malicious package in the Node Package Manager index uses invisible Unicode characters to hide malicious code and Google Calendar links to host the URL for the command-and-control location. The ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package named "os-info-checker-es6" that disguises itself as an operating system information utility to stealthily drop a next-stage payload onto ...

A short bootstrap script retrieves the hidden payload using a JavaScript Proxy 'get () trap.' When the hidden property is accessed, the Proxy converts the invisible Hangul filler characters back ...

Since writing the unicode message smuggling post a bunch of people have wondered if AI can decode it. It doesn't work 100% of the time, but Claude Sonnet is pretty consistent.

Change the "File Origin" setting to "Unicode (UTF-8)." Check the Japanese characters in the preview pane. If they don't display in a Japanese font, the characters may be saved in a different format.

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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 ...

People pointed out that it looks just like a decades-old Unicode character. "Unicode character U+1D54F (𝕏) was added to Unicode in 2001 and has been used in mathematical text books since the 70s.