Butler said it is highly unlikely that anyone would be able to use this method to hide malware or malicious code in an emoji.

A security researcher claims to have discovered a way to hide extra information inside emoji.

The concept revolves around Unicode's system of representing text as a sequence of codepoints, with each codepoint being a number assigned meaning by the Unicode Consortium.

Discover how hidden Unicode data, including emojis, is being used to exploit AI systems and what developers can do to ...

Paul Butler tests and demonstrates the flexibility of encoding hidden messages within Unicode characters, including emoji.

Using variation selectors, you can conceal messages of arbitrary length within emoji, or indeed any unicode character. "To be ...

Once reserved for romantic partners and other loved ones, the heart emoji can now mean anything—which means it has no meaning ...

In their latest iOS 17.4 update, Apple removed the family emoji that’ve been around for over a decade. Replacing them with these simplistic icons that many find unappealing. So why did Apple do this?