In one of the most significant changes in recent years, Microsoft announced today that it will block by default implementation VBA macro scripts in all five Office applications.
The company says:
From the beginning of April 2022, users of Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word applications will not be able to activate macro scripts in unreliable documents downloaded from the Internet.
The change researchers are calling for security for years, it's expected to block malware gangs that trick users into allowing a macro to run script which will install malware on their systems.
In these attacks, users usually download a document from an email or a Web site. When the file is opened, the attacker usually displays a message instructing the user to enable the execution of a macro script.
Although there are many users who know that this is forbidden by bat, there will be some who fall into the trap. Of course the latter end up with an infected computer.
