Attackers Use Text Salting to Evade AI-Powered Spam Filters

Cybersecurity firm Barracuda reports that attackers are increasingly using a technique called 'text salting' to bypass AI-driven email filters. This method involves embedding harmless-looking words within malicious emails to confuse machine-learning and LLM-based security tools. Barracuda has observed over a million phishing attacks employing this tactic since April.