Attackers have adapted a technique popularized in AI prompt injection research for a high-volume phishing campaign, using invisible Unicode characters to evade email filtering, Microsoft researchers reported Thursday. The finding came from Microsoft Defender for Office 365 prompt injection protection research. A hunting signature built to detect ASCII smuggling in email recorded a surge beginning..
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