Security News > 2021 > October > Phishing campaign uses math symbols to evade detection
Phishing actors are now using mathematical symbols on impersonated company logos to evade detection from anti-phishing systems.
All three spoofing types masquerade as voicemail notifications containing an embedded 'Play' button, that when clicked, take the user to a phishing portal that was crafted to look like a Verizon website.
Inky has found that this phishing campaign relied on recently-registered domains that were unreported.
The logo on the cloned site is the genuine one as the phishing actors stole most of the HTML and CSS elements from the real Verizon site.
This is done for the phishing actors to ensure that the victim hasn't mistyped their password in the first attempt, so it's essentially a "Quality assurance" step.
If the contents of an email do not make sense for whatever reason, it's usually phishing and the email should be junked.