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GlassWorm malware hides in invisible open-source code

  • Deni Ellis Béchard--Scientific American
  • published date: 2026-03-21 10:30:00 UTC

A cybercrime campaign called GlassWorm is hiding malware in invisible characters and spreading it through software that millions of developers rely on

The danger in the code came from characters that are invisible to the human eye. In early March researchers at several security firms examined what looked like empty space and found hidden Unicode ch… [+4079 chars]