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Hackers Use Emoji To Smuggle Malicious Code
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Hackers are increasingly using emoji and other Unicode tricks to hide malicious code and bypass filters, researchers and security reports say. Studies from firms such as Mindgard and FireTail and demonstrations like InvisibleJS show near‑100% evasion of some LLM and filter defenses, prompting AWS and academics to propose Unicode sanitisation and urging organisations to deploy normalization, stripping, and monitoring.
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