Recently, Avanan (cloud security provider) has been seeing a number of phishing attacks using a simple strategy to get their blatant email spoofs past Microsoft's phishing scans. The tactic, which they are calling ZeroFont, involves inserting hidden words with a font size of zero that are invisible to the recipient.
"That is kind of a crazy set of demands to make," said Peter Lee, corporate vice president of Microsoft AI and Research, who leads the New Experiences and Technologies, or NExT, group. Lee's group pursues what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has called "relevant moon shots" with the potential to transform the core of Microsoft's business and the computer technology industry. Project Natick is an out-of-the-box idea to accommodate the exponential growth in demand for cloud computing infrastructure near population centers. As Peter Lee says, "Natick is trying to get there."
More info can be found on project's page
2018-06-22