Security News > 2022 > May > Novel Phishing Trick Uses Weird Links to Bypass Spam Filters

Researchers have identified a never-before-seen method for sneaking malicious links into email inboxes.

The clever trick takes advantage of a key difference in how email inboxes and browsers read URLs, according a Monday report by Perception Point.

Ordinary email security filters interpreted it as a comment, but browsers interpreted it as a legitimate web domain.

On May 2, Perception Point's incident response team flagged a hasily-designed phishing email trying to pass itself off as a Microsoft notice.

So here's the mystery: how did such a low-effort phishing attempt make it past email security filters, which are trained to spot much more sophisticated frauds than this?

None of their emails managed to trick any targets before they were discovered.

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https://threatpost.com/novel-phishing-trick-uses-weird-links-to-bypass-spam-filters/179587/