A malicious Python package on PyPI uses Unicode as an obfuscation technique to evade detection while stealing and exfiltrating developers' account credentials and other sensitive data from compromised ...

Cybersecurity researchers from Phylum have found a new form of malware in a PyPI package that was using Unicode to hide. Unicode is a global encoding standard used for different languages and scripts, ...

Is there some trick to get translate to work right with unicode strings? I finally gave up in frustration and just used replace as well - horribly inefficient but at least it works.