SpamAssassin Plugin for detecting VBA/OLE2 Macros in Word/Excel Documents SpamAssassin plugin for detecting VBA macros in Microsoft Office Documents, including those contained within ZIP archives.

Security researchers at Microsoft discovered a new variation of a macro-based malware in a file that contained a VBA project designed to script the malicious macro.

In the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the prevalence of malicious Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros embedded in Office documents presents a formidable challenge. These macros, while ...

VBA macro malware has seen a resurgence of use in recent years by malicious actors as a vector to perpetrate cyber attacks. Anti-virus and analysis tools use heuristics of the VBA source code in an ...

“However, threat actors can write VBA code to create macros that do harmful things and are embedded in documents that are then distributed online. Despite awareness and security efforts, macro-enabled ...

Microsoft says the suspension of Office blocking internet macros is only temporary and that it will provide an update in a few weeks.