As you peruse your inbox, you come across an important email with a Word attachment - perhaps an invoice, message from a vendor or request from one of your colleagues - but once opened without thinking... you discover you've been scammed.
Cyber criminals understand exactly how to exploit this situation and have devised a means of bypassing even the most advanced email security filters using corrupted Microsoft Word documents as bait.
This strategy is both clever and dangerous.
Phishing (pronounced "fishing") is an attempt by scammers to gain sensitive data such as bank account numbers or passwords from people by sending fake emails posing as those from banks, coworkers or companies they trust....
