Microsoft is warning of a significant uptick in threats tricking users to enable macros and then infecting them with malicious macros files.

Microsoft Office macros, PowerShell and more are still proving to be popular with cyber criminals distributing attacks via phishing emails, warn researchers after analysing billions of attacks.

Researchers see 66% decline in attacks over eight months since Microsoft turned off macros by default.

Threat groups often hide malware behind macros in innocent-seeming documents, but Microsoft's proposed change should make that route less effective ...

Tricking someone into enabling macros on a downloaded Microsoft Excel or Word file is an old hacker chestnut. That one click from a target creates a foothold for attackers to take over their ...

Microsoft's Security Intelligence team has warned that it has been tracking a "massive" phishing campaign that attempts to install a remote access tool onto PCs by tricking users into opening ...

Microsoft is making changes to web macro permissions across multiple Office apps to help improve user security.

Microsoft has implemented a new feature in Office designed to curb malware and ransomware by blocking macros in enterprise environments.