It’s a new security push from Microsoft.
Microsoft is finally planning to block Visual Basic for Applications macros by default in a variety of Office apps. The change will apply to Office files that are downloaded from the internet and include macros, so Office users will no longer be able to enable certain content with a simple click of a button.
“The default is more secure and is expected to keep more users safe including home users and information workers in managed organizations,”Hackers have been targeting Office documents with malicious macros for years, and while Office has long prompted users to click to enable macros running, this simple button could lead to “severe including malware, compromised identity, data loss, and remote access.
This is a big change that could impact a lot of genuine use cases for VBA macros, and it means that Office users will only be able to enable the macros by specifically ticking an unblock option on the properties of a file. That’s a lot more steps than usual, and ones that Microsoft is hoping will help prevent security issues in the future.
“Macros account for about 25 percent of all ransomware entry,” explains security researcher and former Microsoft employee
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