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 ...
ZDNet

Five years ago: Macro viruses still causing hassles

The latest in the series became apparent last Friday when ON Technology said it had discovered in the wild a new strain of the Laroux virus that infects Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. The virus - ...
Threat Post

ThreatList: Microsoft Macros Remain Top Vector for Malware Delivery

The second-most popular delivery method is CVE-2017-11882, a patched Microsoft vulnerability that allows the attacker to perform arbitrary code-execution. Attacks using malicious Microsoft macros, ...
Graham Cluley

Microsoft rolls back plan to block macros by default

Back in February I applauded Microsoft for taking a decisive step in the fight against macro malware. Here’s part of what I wrote: …more than 25 years after it first distributed the Concept virus on ...
Threat Post

Threat Actors Pivot Around Microsoft’s Macro-Blocking in Office

Cybercriminals turn to container files and other tactics to get around the company’s attempt to thwart a popular way to deliver malicious phishing payloads. Threat actors are finding their way around ...
Computer Weekly

Microsoft to start blocking macros to thwart malware

Microsoft has announced it will begin blocking Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros obtained from the public internet by default across five of its most used Office apps from April 2022, in an ...
Macworld

Eliminating a Word macro virus

A reader who wishes to remain anonymous has acquired a Word cootie and is at a loss as how to deal with it. Anonymous Person writes: My copy of Microsoft Office 2004 seems to have picked up a virus, ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft plans to kill malware delivery via Office macros

Microsoft announced today that it will make it difficult to enable VBA macros downloaded from the Internet in several Microsoft Office apps starting in early April, effectively killing a popular ...
VentureBeat

Ransomware gangs move away from exploiting Microsoft Office macros

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Remote code execution (RCE) attacks are one ...
Macworld

Sophos, Microsoft comment on MelissaW virus

We’ve still more info on the MelissaW virus that can pose a threat to Office 2001 for the Mac users. (See our Jan. 18 reports, Melissa virus hits Office 2001 and Symantec expects MelissaW fix tomorrow ...