Spammers borrowed the invisible text trick used to fool AI models.
Microsoft said email spammers now hide invisible Unicode characters inside ordinary words. A character dropped into funding splits the word for filters while you still read it normally. One campaign peaked at 2.3 million messages in a day before fading in May.
Why it mattersThose same invisible characters were first used to slip secret orders into AI chatbots. Microsoft now tells filters to strip them out before reading any message.
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