Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Glassworm - Invisible Source Code in the Wild

So I recently discovered this blog post (koi.ai) which discusses new malware with source code containing invisible characters


 Rather annoyingly (for me), the blog post glosses over what I consider the interesting part:


What are the invisible characters????  dagnammit, now I have to go and investigate

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