US Patent 11966469 Detecting and protecting against cybersecurity attacks using unprintable tracking characters

Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting and protecting against cybersecurity attacks using unprintable tracking characters. A computing platform may receive a character-limited message sent to a user device. Subsequently, the computing platform may detect that the character-limited message sent to the user device includes suspicious content. Then, the computing platform may generate a modified character-limited message by inserting one or more special characters into the character-limited message and cause transmission of the modified character-limited message to the user device. Next, the computing platform may receive, from the user device, a spam report that includes the modified character-limited message. Then, the computing platform may identify a presence of the one or more special characters included in the modified character-limited message and adjust one or more filters based on the identification.