Attackers who are targeting open-source package repositories like PyPI (Python ... detection, and the most common evasion technique when it comes to plaintext code is obfuscation. This consists of ...

Security researchers at ReversingLabs have discovered a novel attack that used compiled Python ... detection. “This obfuscation technique allows the compiled code to get past security scanners.

A malicious Python package on PyPI uses Unicode as an obfuscation technique to evade detection while stealing ... of different Unicode fonts in the source code to help it bypass automated scans ...