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ASCII smuggling via invisible Unicode evades email security filters

2026-09-07 16:27 UTC · BleepingComputer · read the source ↗ #phishing#email-security#evasion
  • Engineer — Learn: ASCII smuggling with invisible Unicode is a useful technique to understand when evaluating email security tooling or building internal phishing-resistant workflows; no patch or configuration change required today.
  • SOC/IR — Plan: Add detection coverage for invisible Unicode characters in email bodies and subject lines — tune existing email security filters to flag or quarantine messages containing high-density non-printing Unicode codepoints, and build a hunt query against recent inbound mail logs for this pattern.
  • Leader — Skip
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