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 ...

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 ...

I should add that a very large number of developers I've met (and taught) who use Python 2 are unaware that byte strings even exist. It's much more common to talk about them in Python 3, where they ...