Threat Actors Get Crafty With Emojis to Escape Detection

Posted by PrivacyWire

When 🤖 means "bot available," 🧰 signifies "toolkit," or 💰💰💰 translates to "big ransom," bad actors can evade filters and keep it all on the down-low.

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tomspark wrote:

lol yeah this has been a thing for a while now. threat actors basically weaponizing the fact that emoji detection is way behind text-based filtering. the real issue is most security teams are still looking for keywords when the actual conversations moved to a layer of abstraction they're not monitoring. it's like watching people speak in code while you're only listening for specific words — you're gonna miss everything.