#INVISIBLE TEXT WINDOWS#

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#INVISIBLE TEXT CODE#

As if there isn’t enough happening, now we have to be wary of phishing email using invisible code to get that phishing email to your inbox.If you see squares instead of text on webpages, or text is blurry or fuzzy, follow the steps below to try fixing the issue. The hackers using this technique are extremely sophisticated and require a deep knowledge of Unicode/HTML. This, then, makes the bad guy’s threats stand out and nulls the attack. Technology that uses pattern matching done on a visual basis rather than a purely textual basis is more effective, as it allows the AI to see the mail more like a human recipient. For the intelligence technologies to be able to detect these invisible characters, Baggett said you need to be able to compare and contrast two versions of the email-one with the raw text/html version that was embodied by the “code” and one with what is actually visible to the end user. This is the exact type of cybersecurity problem that AI and machine learning were built for. Hence, ‘invisible characters.'” How AI/ML Can Help “So why does the attacker use this weird SOFT HYPHEN character when any character would confuse the SEG? Because the SOFT HYPHEN is invisible to the end user! In this case the end user reads ‘Password Expiry’-as though no extra characters are even there. I put X here in place of SOFT HYPHEN, but to the SEG it might as well be any character. “In the specific example we looked at in the report,” said Baggett, “the attacker used SOFT HYPHENs to prevent the SEG from matching the text ‘Password expiry.’ They did this by putting SOFT HYPHEN after every single character, which made that text look like ‘PXaXsXsXwXoXrXdX EXxXpXiXrXyX’’ to the SEG. So how does it work? Baggett said the bad guys will use extra letters, characters or codepoints-as long as it is encoded into the text, it has the capability to confuse any pattern matching that SEG is doing. This type of phishing scam is nasty because the average person has no idea the capability to sneak in this type of code existed. But if the line isn’t broken there, the SOFT HYPHEN just renders as nothing: ‘wetware.’ The point is the SOFT HYPHEN is not visible, by design, but to the SEG parsing the text of the email, it might as well be a visible character like a capital X, because it has a codepoint like any other character, and will be encoded as such.” Using Tactics the Average Person Could Never Detect This would tell the email client (rendering engine) that it’s permissible to break the line at ‘wet,’ as in ‘wet-ware’. For example, one might write ‘the human brain uses wetXware to analyze branded emails’ where the X is a SOFT HYPHEN character. “One we cover in the report is SOFT HYPHEN – this is used by an author to indicate that it’s acceptable to break a word at the indicated point and insert a visible hyphen there. “A key insight from our recent report is that there are codepoints in Unicode that correspond to characters that have no visual representation at all. In its report, Inky Technologies warned that threat actors have bumped up their efforts with a “nasty new specimen.” Inky CEO Dave Baggett explained in an email interview the new ways scammers are exploiting the complexity of Unicode/HTML to embed invisible text in an email to confuse the SEG.

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