Microsoft confirmed this week that it will soon start blocking Visual Basic Applications (VBA) macros in Office apps by default after quietly rolling back the change earlier this month. In a new ...

Historically, malicious Office macros have been the equivalent of email’s phishing attempts, launching malware at the click of a user’s mouse. But Microsoft unexpectedly has reinstated VBA macros ...

Microsoft announced it has extended a feature in Office 2016 that protects against malicious macros to Office 2013. Microsoft is combating a surge in macro-based malware with a new feature that allows ...

Microsoft Office macro viruses aren’t the only resurgent ’90s phenomenon right now, but they are the one that cause network administrators to lose the most sleep. Microsoft is offering a new tool for ...

When Office sees a mark-of-the-web tag, the program opens that file in read-only Protected View mode just in case the file is malicious. Click to expand... At least in Excel this mode disables ...

Enterprise system administrators can now block attackers from using a favorite malware infection method: Microsoft Office documents with malicious macros. Microsoft this week added a new option in ...