Hackers are using 'invisible' Unicode characters to sneak phishing lures into emails

A technique used in prompt injection attacks has made it into phishing, Microsoft has warned.
Analytics Insight

ASCII Smuggling: How Attackers are Using Hidden Text to Bypass AI Email Security

Invisible Unicode can hide malicious keywords from security systems while leaving email content visually unchanged.Microsoft observed millions o ...
Deccan Herald

Explained | What is 'ASCII smuggling'? How to safeguard yourself from such online phishing fraud

For the last several years, particularly during and after the COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdowns, there has been a steady rise in cybercrimes. Microsoft's threat researchers have detected threat ...
Ars Technica

Researchers use ASCII art to elicit harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots

Yo, should probably caption and hide the ASCII art from screen readers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/pre#example (Google assistant will ...