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ASCII smuggling technique migrates from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion

2026-09-04 14:56 UTC · Microsoft Security Blog · read the source ↗ #phishing#evasion-technique#email-security
  • Engineer — Plan: Audit email security gateway and content-inspection rules to detect invisible Unicode characters used to bypass filters; evaluate whether your email platform has updated signatures for this evasion class.
  • SOC/IR — Act: Build or tune detection rules to flag emails containing invisible/tag Unicode codepoints (U+E0000 range); hunt for recent phishing lures that may have bypassed filters using this technique since the evasion method is now publicly documented.
  • Leader — Learn: A novel phishing evasion technique is gaining traction; no board-level action needed now, but awareness is useful context for the next email security or AI-risk discussion.
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