Cybersecurity Source update

ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion

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What happened

Invisible Unicode characters popularized for hiding instructions from AI models are now being used to obfuscate words before email filters parse them.

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Source publication date: Sep 3, 2026. Original Source →

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