{"id":11969,"date":"2026-04-08T21:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/emojis-power-covert-threat-actor-communications\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T21:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:53:25","slug":"emojis-power-covert-threat-actor-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/emojis-power-covert-threat-actor-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat Actors Get Crafty With Emojis to Escape Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Threat Actors Get Crafty With Emojis to Escape Detection<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>When \ud83e\udd16 means &#8220;bot available,&#8221; \ud83e\uddf0 signifies &#8220;toolkit,&#8221; or \ud83d\udcb0\ud83d\udcb0\ud83d\udcb0 translates to &#8220;big ransom,&#8221; bad actors can evade filters and keep it all on the down-low.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Jai Vijayan<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/cyber-risk\/emojis-power-covert-threat-actor-communications\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threat Actors Get Crafty With Emojis to Escape Detection When \ud83e\udd16 means &#8220;bot available,&#8221; \ud83e\uddf0 signifies &#8220;toolkit,&#8221; or \ud83d\udcb0\ud83d\udcb0\ud83d\udcb0 translates to &#8220;big ransom,&#8221; bad actors can evade filters and keep it all on the down-low. Jai Vijayan Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-11969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkreading","tag-darkreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}