Vulnerability Snapshot
This advisory is rated CRITICAL — exploitation is trivial or already observed in the wild and impact is severe. Patch immediately, not on the next maintenance window.
Affected technology: edge.
Executive Summary
Invisible Unicode characters popularized for hiding instructions from AI models are now being used to obfuscate words before email filters parse them. The post ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog. ]]>
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What is "ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion"?
This is a critical-severity osint alert from Microsoft Threat Intelligence. It covers edge and was flagged for security teams to evaluate.
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