A phishing campaign targeting Booking.com users relies on a technique involving the ambiguity of Unicode characters.

Threat actors are leveraging a Unicode character to make phishing links appear like legitimate Booking.com links in a new ...

Those sequences would be released as Emoji 13.1, and if the Unicode Consortium determines to move forward with that idea, we'd see them land on phones in 2021.

The Unicode standard, meanwhile, is itself constantly being revised and extended. At the same time, Windows users are getting built-in language and Unicode support that in some respects is light-years ...

For those who might not be aware, there is a distinction between Unicode 14.0 and Emoji 14.0. Emoji 14.0 includes sequences that combine two or more code points to display a single emoji.

The Unicode Consortium on Tuesday released version 10.0 of the Unicode Standard, offering a preview of new text characters and emoji that will likely arrive on Apple platforms like iOS later this ...

The Unicode Corrigendum #1: UTF-8 Shortest Form specifies explicitly that “The definition of each UTF specifies the illegal code unit sequences in that UTF.

It takes several months for Apple to introduce new emoji after a Unicode update, so we can expect to see these characters next spring. Apple will add the emoji to an iOS 26 update next year ...