Experts Warn of a New Technique that Disables Macro Security Warnings in Malicious Office Files

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Source While it became normality for phishing operations that distribute weaponized Microsoft Office documents to trick recipients into enabling the macros to prompt the infection chain directly, a new discovery shows hackers use non-malicious documents to disable security warnings prior to executing macro code to infect victims’ devices. According to McAfee researchers, the new technique […]

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