Computer engineer [Marco Cilloni] realized a lot of developers today still have trouble dealing with Unicode in their programs, especially in the C/C++ world. He wrote an excellent guide that ...
Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...
Unicode is a standard for character encoding that can represent a wide variety of characters used around the world. Software engineer Paul Butler explains that Unicode allows users to embed 'secret ...
A malicious Python package on PyPI uses Unicode as an obfuscation technique to evade detection while stealing and exfiltrating developers' account credentials and other sensitive data from compromised ...
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 ...
Google has declined to fix a critical 'ASCII smuggling' vulnerability in its Gemini AI, leaving Google Workspace users ...
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 concept ...