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 ...

Unicode includes a render command past which other data can be bundled but not rendered, and exploiting that effectively allows users to create hidden messages within Unicode characters.

The range of characters that can be represented by Unicode is truly bewildering. If there’s a symbol that was ever used to represent a sound or a concept anywhere in the world, chances are pr… ...

As a result, the Unicode Transformation Format 8 (UTF-8) encoding supports 2 31 code points, with most characters in the current Unicode character set requiring generally one or two bytes each.

That’s because of the issue above: Unicode is comprehensive while fonts’ character sets are finite. A digital font typically includes only the characters needed to represent one or more scripts.

The Unicode Consortium has announced version 7.0 of the Unicode character-encoding standard, bringing an additional 2,834 new characters and 250 new emojis to its already extensive character set.

The big picture: The Unicode Consortium recently announced the latest Unicode Standard, Version 14. This version brings more than 838 new characters, including 37 emoji characters ranging from ...