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Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters

The Hacker News·September 4, 2026·1 min read
Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters

Microsoft warned of a high-volume phishing campaign using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. Attackers split financial lure words like 'funding' to evade detection. The campaign sends millions of emails, and Microsoft Security Research is alerting organizations to the technique, which hides malicious content from filters while remaining visible to users.

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