The Interior Ministry told about a new scheme to steal accounts via Word

Fraudsters have started using corrupted text documents of the Word program to steal user accounts. This was reported on December 6 by the press service of the department for organizing the fight against the illegal use of information and communication technologies of the Russian Interior Ministry.

Cybercriminals send letters with corrupted Word documents, using the file recovery function to bypass antivirus protection. The emails masquerade as notifications from HR or accounting departments about monetary payments.

"When opening the documents, Word detects that the file is corrupted, reports that 'unreadable content has been detected,' and then offers to restore the file," the agency said in a statement on its Telegram channel.

Clicking on the link to restore the file, the victim is taken to a phishing site similar to Microsoft's. This page scans and steals the user's credentials.

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