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A calendar invite notification whose description hides a phishing linkSecurity

File Attack Deep Dives: ICS Calendar Invites

How attackers weaponize .ics calendar invites to phish credentials, bypass MFA, and steal OAuth consent — and the fields that catch them.

Word document carrying a macro warning over a fake invoiceSecurity

File Attack Deep Dives: Office Documents as an Attack Surface

Every way an Office document attacks: macros, remote templates, embedded objects, hyperlinks, QR handoffs and invoice fraud, plus the signals that catch each.

Rendered example of an HTML page that triggers a file downloadSecurity

File Attack Deep Dives: HTML as an Attack Surface

Every way an HTML page attacks: smuggling, external fetches, QR handoffs, phone callbacks, credential phishing, job scams, and AI prompt injection.

How File-Based Attacks Land: A Detection Engineer's Field GuideSecurity

How File-Based Attacks Land: A Detection Engineer's Field Guide

A practical taxonomy of how malware and phishing arrive as files, why classic controls miss them, and how detection should think.

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