Use Microsoft's Bing search engine and search for links to download Office 2019. The results will surprise you. The Bing search engine will return a website that provides tutorials on how you can crack Office.
This happens every time users search for the term “office 2019 download” on Bing. The result is a Bing search card that shows you the steps you need to take to get your own Office without buying it.
The crackfullpc website displays a step-by-step guide on how to download and install a “cracked” version of Office 2019.
The page recommends downloading and installing uTorrent, a very well-known application for downloading torrent files. Then, it asks users to download a torrent file that contains a pirated version of Office 2019. After the download, the page guides the audience in installing the pirated version and activating it with a crack.
We should note that, up to now, the domain where these files are located (dinthatharronhad) does not appear malicious on VirusTotal.
Earlier in 2018, Bing displayed a fake Google Chrome download page in search results for the search term “Google Chrome” that offered a trojanized version of the browser.
The company’s current exploit via Bing was spotted by Dutch security researcher Jeroen Frijters, who posted his findings on Twitter.
The tweet will probably wake up Microsoft's staff and intervene and clean up Bing's search results in the coming hours, just as they did with the malicious Google Chrome download page.
Updated: It seems Microsoft staff fixed the search results, but forgot to change the links to the videos:
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