A Microsoft Word document with a malicious macro embedded as part of an IRS-themed malware campaign. Image Credits: Microsoft. Microsoft said it is still planning to block Visual Basic Applications ...

A new Office security restriction that was a major blow to phishing and malware distribution via email has apparently been rolled back. Microsoft has decided to wind back a new-ish security ...

Microsoft confirmed this week that it will soon start blocking Visual Basic Applications (VBA) macros in Office apps by default after quietly rolling back the change earlier this month. In a new ...

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Microsoft announced today that it resumed the rollout of VBA macro auto-blocking in downloaded Office documents after temporarily rolling it back earlier this month following user feedback. The change ...

Ever since Microsoft decided to block Office macros by default, threat actors have been forced to evolve, adopting new methods for delivering malware at an unprecedented rate. Now, without their ...

While Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would block VBA macros on downloaded documents by default, Redmond said on Thursday that it will roll back this change based on "feedback" until ...

Several security experts expressed disappointment this week at Microsoft's quiet reversal Wednesday of a decision it had announced in February to disable Office macros in files from the Internet.

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 ...