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Macro Malware Is Back

“Warning: This document contains macros.” A familiar message from the 1990s is back, as attackers find new ways to get people to open documents containing macro malware. This updated threat is ...
Yahoo

Macro-based malware strikes again: How to keep your networks safe

Digital bad guys are once again pushing macro-based malware. After a 10-year hiatus, in January 2015 Microsoft Malware Protection Center reported a huge spike in two malicious macros: Adnel and Tarbir ...
Virtualization Review

Macro Scanner To Block Malware Now Available with Office 365 ProPlus

Last week Microsoft announced that it has turned on Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) technology to protect against malicious macros for Office 365 ProPlus subscribers. Although it has been around ...
eWeek

Dridex Banking Malware Abuses Microsoft Office Macros to Infect Users

eSpeaks host Corey Noles sits down with Qualcomm's Craig Tellalian to explore a workplace computing transformation: the rise of AI-ready PCs. Matt Hillary, VP of Security and CISO at Drata, details ...
Graham Cluley

25 years on, Microsoft makes another stab at stopping macro malware

Bravo to Microsoft, because it sounds like they’re doing something to improve the security of Office users. Way back in 1995, Microsoft accidentally shipped a virus on CD-ROM. At first Microsoft ...
Bleeping Computer

LibreOffice addresses security issues with macros, passwords

The LibreOffice suite has been updated to address several security vulnerabilities related to the execution of macros and the protection of passwords for web connections. The developer implemented ...
heise online

LibreOffice improves macro security

The LibreOffice developers have updated their software to close a security vulnerability that allowed signed macros to be executed despite a failed check. This is now no longer possible in the default ...
Redmond Magazine

IT Pros To Get More Security Control over Office Document Macro Content

Microsoft will finally better respect IT pro decisions about macros, ActiveX content and Office add-ins in e-mailed Office documents, according to a new security policy that'll be arriving in "early ...
Wired

Microsoft's Small Step to Disable Macros Is a Huge Win for Security

Tricking someone into enabling macros on a downloaded Microsoft Excel or Word file is an old hacker chestnut. That one click from a target creates a foothold for attackers to take over their devices.
Android Police

How to enable or disable Word macros

Parth is a technology analyst and writer specializing in the comprehensive review and feature exploration of the Android ecosystem. His work is distinguished by its meticulous focus on flagship ...
Redmond Magazine

Office 365 ProPlus Now Includes Macro Scanner To Block Malware

Microsoft has turned on a technology to protect against malicious macros for Office 365 ProPlus subscribers, the company announced last week. The technology, called Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), ...