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Millions of Phishing Emails Use ASCII Smuggling to Bypass Security Filters


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2026-09-21 20:01:06
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A massive phishing campaign is using invisible Unicode tag characters to evade security filters, according to researchers at Microsoft. This technique, known as “ASCII smuggling,” has grown popular over the past year for launching AI prompt injection attacks, but the same tactic can hide suspicious text in emails.




A massive phishing campaign is using invisible Unicode tag characters to evade security filters, according to researchers at Microsoft. This technique, known as “ASCII smuggling,” has grown popular over the past year for launching AI prompt injection attacks, but the same tactic can hide suspicious text in emails.




Source: KnowBe4
Source Link: https://blog.knowbe4.com/millions-of-phishing-emails-use-ascii-smuggling-to-bypass-security-filters


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