“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
One of the key findings from the ESET Threat Report T1 2022 is that the Emotet botnet has risen, Phoenix-like, from the ashes, pumping out vast amounts of spam in March and April 2022, to the point ...
On February 7, 2022, Microsoft announced that it would begin auto-disabling Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros. Security experts celebrated Microsoft’s decision as an important step in ...
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), ...