Claims: AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting

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1. title: AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting (alleges; supported) Source
2. url: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/17/ai-spam-filters-are-getting-suckered-by-old-school-text-salting/5274434 (alleges; supported) Source
3. summary: Notice more spam getting through that corporate email filter lately? Attackers are using a technique known as "text salting," which hides benign-looking words intended to confuse some AI-powered email filters, says cybersecurity firm Barracuda. The email security outfit said on Thursday that it had detected more than one million retail-themed phishing attacks using text salting since April. It’s not a new technique by any stretch and has been used to fool traditional secure email gateways for ye… (alleges; supported) Source
4. published: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:15:22 +0200 (alleges; supported) Source