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

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

Unicode Technical Report #51: The U+200D Zero Width Joiner can be used between the elements of a sequence of characters to indicate that a single glyph should be presented if available.

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 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 ...

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.

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