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The invisible threat hidden in clear view: how Unicode characters are being weaponized to hide malicious commands from human users

AI coding agent.

  • A carefully crafted branch name can steal your GitHub authentication token
  • Unicode spaces hide malicious payloads from human eyes in plain sight
  • Attackers can automate token theft across multiple users sharing a repository
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