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Because Microsoft has now blocked macros by default on Office files, cybercriminals are now using digital note-taking app OneNote to victimize people and infect their devices with malware.

Justin Luna · Jan 22, 2023 with 5 comments

A new strain of ransomware has been discovered, which utilizes Javascript, instead of using executable files. It also tricks users into enabling macros, which is responsible for launching the malware.

Justin Luna · Jun 21, 2016 · Hot! with 22 comments

The end of standard mass mailing worms is nigh - maybe as soon as before the end of 2003. But there replacements - Trojans and Spyware - are much, much worse. Or so Roger Thompson,...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jan 3, 2003 with -1 comments

Thanks to NTCompatible for this one. Excel and PowerPoint have a macro security framework that controls the execution of macros and prevents macros from running automatically. Under this framework, any time a user opens a...

Steven Parker · Oct 5, 2001 with -1 comments