Microsoft ended support for IE 11 on June 15, 2022, and has been encouraging customers to use Edge instead with 'IE mode'.

Discover the hidden ways to access Internet Explorer on Windows 11, despite Microsoft's retirement of the browser.

It wasn’t recommended, of course—aside from the fact that Internet Explorer’s age made it a terrible browser to use in 2022, the absence of support turned it into a security risk.

The malicious documents were designed to exploit a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer’s Script engine, tracked as CVE-2022-41128 with a CVSS severity rating of 8.8.