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Phishers send corrupted documents to bypass email security
2024-12-03 12:04

Phishers have come up with a new trick for bypassing email security systems: corrupted MS Office documents. The spam campaign Malware hunting service Any.Run has warned last week about email campaigns luring users with promises of payments, benefits and end-of-the-year bonuses. Recipients are instructed to dowload the attached document – an archive file (ZIP) or an MS Office file (e.g., DOCX) – and open it, but the file is corrupted. The recipients are then prompted … More → The post Phishers send corrupted documents to bypass email security appeared first on Help Net Security.


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