Researchers from anti-phishing cybersecurity firm INKY have detailed a new technique to evade detection in phishing attacks, it leverages using mathematical symbols on impersonated company logos.
The experts analyzed the case of a campaign targeting the customers of the telecommunication giant Verizon, attackers used a square root symbol, a logical NOR operator, or the checkmark symbol itself. The trick adopted by the crooks aims at creating a sort of optical interference that could allow bypassing anti-spam solutions.
