Security News

Microsoft Extends Malicious Macro Protection to Office 2013 (Threatpost)
2016-10-27 20:27

Microsoft announced it has extended a feature in Office 2016 that protects against malicious macros to Office 2013.

Macro-based malware evolves to bypass traditional defenses (Help Net Security)
2016-09-12 17:03

Macro-based malware is growing into full-featured malware capable of detecting and bypassing traditional security tools, Barkly researchers have discovered. Macro-based malware: The past Malware...

Like Macros Before It, Attackers Shifting to OLE to Spread Malware (Threatpost)
2016-06-16 12:00

Like macros before it, attackers have been placing malicious code alongside object linking and embedding (OLE) code, along with well-formatted text and images, to spread malware and ransomware.

NSA Using Insecure Word Macros (Schneier on Security)
2016-06-13 12:01

There's an interesting message in the documents about Snowden that Vice magazine got out of the NSA with a FOIA request. At least in 2012, the NSA was using Word macros internally...