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Attackers conceal phishing lures using invisible Unicode characters - BleepingComputer

Published by BleepingComputer By Bill Toulas · 6 September 2026 at 17:23
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Attackers conceal phishing lures using invisible Unicode characters - BleepingComputer
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Threat actors have adopted the ASCII smuggling technique in phishing campaigns, using invisible Unicode characters to evade email security filters.

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