I created a gauge at the edge of my terminal to show how much I used AI agents that week. It is a horizontal bar made ...

Python regex character classes make it easier to identify specific patterns inside strings without writing unnecessarily long regular expressions. This lesson demonstrates how \d matches digits while ...

IntroductionIn June 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz identified a new malware family, tracked as SloppyRAT, that is likely leveraged by a ransomware-related threat actor. ThreatLabz observed SloppyRAT being ...

Anthropic said it was "most concerned" about an event in which Claude uploaded "malicious" code. To help explain the incident ...

Like many of us, [Austin] finds writing code satisfying — especially if it is challenging. His latest challenge: shoehorn something that looks like Python into 512 bytes. Ok, that ...

Cybercriminals use non-rendering ASCII Unicode characters to embed hidden malicious content within normal-looking text, evading detection by security systems. • Rise in cybercrime Post-pandemic ...

Threat actors have adopted the ASCII smuggling technique in phishing campaigns, using invisible Unicode characters to evade email security filters. ASCII smuggling has been used in AI prompt injection ...

Fraudsters have found a new use for ASCII smuggling, typically used to hide malicious prompts intended for AI models, in an old-school attack method: email phishing. Microsoft uncovered a massive ...

A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters on email platforms that are designed to flag unwanted messages used in mass ...

Microsoft researchers observed a high-volume phishing campaign using invisible Unicode tag characters, a technique popularized in AI prompt injection research as ASCII Smuggling. Instead of using ...

This article explores how ASCII-based instrument control evolved into the SCPI standard, which continues to provide a common language for programmable test equipment more than 35 years after its ...