Virtually all compilers — programs that transform human-readable source code into computer-executable machine code — are vulnerable to an insidious attack in which an adversary can introduce targeted ...

The old RLO trick of exploiting how Unicode handles script ordering and a related homoglyph attack can imperceptibly switch the real name of malware. Researchers have found a new way to encode ...

The Trojan Source attack method, identified by University of Cambridge researchers, tricks compilers into reading hidden Unicode characters and generating binaries with extra instructions and ...

Academic researchers have released details about a new attack method they call “Trojan Source” that allows injecting vulnerabilities into the source code of a software project in a way that human ...

Academic cybersecurity researchers have flagged a strange vulnerability that affects most computer code compilers, and many software development environments. Discovered by researchers at the ...