Fraudsters have found a new use for ASCII smuggling, typically used to hide malicious prompts intended for AI models, in an ...
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 ...
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 ...
Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...
Attackers use invisible Unicode characters to bypass phishing filters, hiding finance-themed scams that can steal credentials ...
A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters on ...
Like many art forms, especially digital ones, ASCII art began as an exercise of working within limitations. It involved using the limited, fixed-width ASCII character set to create recognizable images ...
Threat actors have adopted the ASCII smuggling technique in phishing campaigns, using invisible Unicode characters to evade email security filters.
Astra, a new model focused on coding, computer use, long-running agentic tasks, and cybersecurity, with availability across ...
A technique used in prompt injection attacks has made it into phishing, Microsoft has warned.
Haiku OS beta 6 came out just a week after the project’s 25th birthday. We have been trying it on several different machines ...
We’ll start this week off with some disappointing, though not entirely unexpected, news — the ambitious commercial mission to save NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is officially a bust. The space ...