Spammers Using SHY Character to Hide Malicious URLs
Posted by deepcore under Security (4 Responds)
Spammers have jumped on the little-used soft hyphen (or SHY character) to fool URL filtering devices. According to researchers at Symantec Corp., spammers are larding up URLs for sites they promote with the soft hyphen character, which many browsers ignore. Spammers aren’t shy about jumping humans flexible cognitive abilities to slip past the notice of […]
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