Phishing Tactic Alert: Corrupted Word Docs
Corrupt Word Attachments May Be a Scam Sigh… here we go again. The scammers keep innovating, and so we keep having to say it: there’s another new phishing tactic on the rise, and this one’s a stinker. This new phishing tactic has been getting past spam filters and tricking professionals worldwide, taking advantage of both human nature and advancing “good” tech to fool you and attack your business. Here’s what you need to know about how scammers are using corrupted file attachments to attack businesses like yours. How It Starts: A Corrupted Word File (or Similar) This new attack starts with a corrupted file, often a Microsoft Word document file (.docx). It looks like a real file, and it may even seem like it was sent by someone or some entity you trust. Now, if you’ve been at this a while, you already know the old advice not to trust email attachments. But that advice was largely about executables, those .exe files that would not-so-subtly install new malicious software onto your system...