Microsoft published guidance for Windows admins on how to safely disable Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) fields in Office that are being used to spread malware in email-based attacks. Despite a rash of ...
Before you run these examples, you must first invoke Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word, and open the spreadsheet or document used in the example. Note: DDE examples are included in the host-specific ...
Researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center discovered that the Necurs botnet has been using what's known as a DDE attack to spread the Locky ransomware. What is a DDE attack, and what mitigation ...
Tucked away in an old Security Advisory, Microsoft announces new registry settings that control the automatic behavior of Dynamic Data Exchange in Excel. You may recall that Microsoft disabled ...
Malware authors don't necessarily need to trick users to enable macros to run malicious code. An alternative technique exists, one that takes advantage of another legitimate Office feature. This ...
Latest Flash zero-day used for cyber-espionage (David Swanson, Kaspersky, Adobe) This week, Adobe patched a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) used in targeted cyber-espionage attacks, which, ...
These examples use Microsoft Excel as the DDE server, but any application that supports DDE as a server can communicate with the SAS System. Before you run most of these examples, you must first ...