Security News > 2017 > November > Microsoft offers mitigation advice for DDE attacks scenarios
2017-11-09 20:25
Microsoft has published a security advisorty containing DDE attack mitigation instructions for both users and admins. What’s a DDE attack? For a while now, attackers have been ditching malicious macros and OLE objects in favor of the Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) attack technique to deliver malware via booby-trapped Office documents. Opening such a document will not trigger any security warnings. Users will be simply asked to update the document links, and then to execute the … More →
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