Microsoft announced on Monday that it will be bringing a new default for Windows Office users that is said to "block Internet macros by default." Microsoft's new Internet macro blocking scheme ...

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 mac ...

After rolling back restrictions on internet macros in Office, Microsoft now says it is was a temporary change and that it will be bring back the ban on macros as the default for all users in future.

Office macros are able to do too much. I was the one with a proof-of-concept MS Word 2.0 macro, showing how saving a document as a template, with an auto-run startup macro, could lock up a ...

Image Credits: Microsoft. Microsoft said it is still planning to block Visual Basic Applications (VBA) macros by default in Office apps after quietly rolling back the planned change last month.

Macros can be highly useful tools in Microsoft Office. Most Microsoft Office macros use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) or Excel 4.0 macros (XLM). These programming and macro languages have a ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is still planning to block Visual Basic for Applications ...

This warning comes from Cisco Systems’ Talos threat intelligence service, after it discovered several new documents created in Office that try to spread malware through Visual Basic macros.

Microsoft says last week's decision to roll back VBA macro auto-blocking in downloaded Office documents is only a temporary change. Redmond announced in February that Microsoft Office would ...

Barriers that Microsoft has placed to prevent malicious macros has forced some cybercriminals to use LNK files for malware delivery, but at the cost of easier detection. For years attackers have ...