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 ...

Phylumは3月22日(米国時間)、「Malicious Actors Use Unicode Support in Python to Evade Detection」において、PyPI (Python Package Index)リポジトリに認証情報やその他の機密データを採取して流出させる悪質なパッケージがあるとして、注意を喚起した。Unicodeをトリックとして使用 ...

Cybersecurity researchers from Phylum have found a new form of malware in a PyPI package that was using Unicode to hide. Unicode is a global encoding standard used for different languages and scripts, ...

Is there some trick to get translate to work right with unicode strings? I finally gave up in frustration and just used replace as well - horribly inefficient but at least it works.