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 campaign distributing malware. The attack makes use of the Japanese hiragana ...

But Chrome and Firefox do not show the Punycode version of the URL by default. For Firefox, showing Unicode domains in Punycode requires users to switch a flag in the about:config section.

PHP 6, a planned major upgrade to the popular open source dynamic language for Web applications, will feature internationalization capabilities via Unicode support, key developers of the language said ...