Security News > 2019 > February > Phishers’ new trick for bypassing email URL filters

Phishers have come up with another trick to make Office documents carrying malicious links undetectable by many e-mail security services: they delete the links from the document’s relationship file (xml.rels). The trick has been spotted being used in a email spam campaign aimed at leading victims to a credential harvesting login page. Why does this approach work? “Office documents (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) are made up of a number of XML files that include all the … More → The post Phishers’ new trick for bypassing email URL filters appeared first on Help Net Security.

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