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Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fraudsters have found a new use for ASCII smuggling, typically used to hide malicious prompts intended for AI models, in an old-school attack method: email phishing.<\/p>\n

Microsoft uncovered a massive phishing campaign using invisible Unicode tag characters that peaked at more than 2.37 million messages in late February, remained elevated during weekdays over the next three months, and gradually declined by mid-June.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs AI-era attack methods become better understood, threat actors may adapt them for use in more traditional threats such as phishing and spam,\u201d Redmond\u2019s researchers Noam Kochavi and Sarah Wolstencroft said<\/a> in a Thursday blog. \u201cThis case illustrates how techniques that emerge in AI security research can quickly cross over into established attack ecosystems, reinforcing the need for defenders to view emerging threats through a cross-domain lens.\u201d<\/p>\n

ASCII smuggling involves using invisible or non-rendering Unicode characters to hide content inside text that appears normal to humans, and this makes it a popular technique for indirect prompt injection attacks<\/a>. In these, an attacker hides instructions for an AI assistant<\/a> in invisible Unicode characters, and embeds those malicious prompts inside a webpage or document. A human can\u2019t see them, but a model can, and it decodes them as text – and may then follow the attacker\u2019s instructions to leak data or take unauthorized actions.<\/p>\n

Instead of using ASCII smuggling for prompt injection, however, Microsoft\u2019s security team spotted someone using invisible characters \u2013 inserting Unicode tag spaces between letters \u2013 to split financial-lure words in phishing emails in an apparent attempt to evade keyword matching and other content filters. So, for example, instead of writing \u201cfunding\u201d in the email, the attackers wrote \u201cfun\u27e8U+E0020\u27e9ding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we looked at a sampling of the flagged messages, the surprise was there were no smuggled instructions to an AI assistant,\u201d Kochavi and Wolstencroft wrote. \u201cInstead, the invisible tag characters were inserted inside common financial keywords, splitting them apart so that a literal signature or keyword match would fail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Redmond first detected the ASCII-smuggling signature in early February, flagging about 21,000 messages on February 8 before the number skyrocketed to more than 1.3 million the next day. Most of these emails came from about 150 finance-themed sender domains, and they continued for the next three months, dropping sharply after May 15 but continuing with occasional smaller spikes through at least mid-June.<\/p>\n

The security researchers pointed out two notable characteristics, including sending massive numbers of emails on weekdays and then going silent over the weekend. <\/p>\n

The campaign also had a long, gradual decline. \u201cAfter an intense first phase, with weekday volumes of 1 to 2.37 million messages, peaking on February 26, the numbers stepped down slowly to roughly 80 percent less per weekday by late March.\u201d It then dropped significantly after May 15, continuing with lower activity through mid-June.<\/p>\n

According to Redmond, the most important thing defenders can do to protect against Unicode tag blocks in phishing emails is to verify that normalization and tokenization pipelines handle tag characters consistently. <\/p>\n

\u201cAny content that will be evaluated by keyword, signature, or regex logic should first have invisible and non-rendering Unicode code points stripped or folded, so that splicing them into a word no longer defeats the match,\u201d the threat hunters wrote.<\/p>\n

This same control can also help reduce the threat of ASCII-smuggling against AI assistants that ingest email content.<\/p>\n

Microsoft also suggests scanning for behavioral indicators. \u201cThe observed activity had a distinctive shape: bulk volume from churning, finance-themed disposable domains, on a strict weekday-on \/ weekend-off schedule,\u201d Kochavi and Wolstencroft warned. \u201cA sudden spike of tag-block characters concentrated on finance-themed senders, switching on and off weekly, is a high-confidence campaign indicator.\u201d \u00ae<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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