Malicious spam campaigns delivering banking Trojans

In mid-March 2021, we observed two new spam campaigns delivering banking Trojans. The payload in most cases was IcedID, but we have also seen a few QBot (aka QakBot) samples. Continue reading Malicious spam campaigns delivering banking Trojans

Microsoft launches Power Fx, a new open source low-code language

Microsoft today announced Power Fx, a new low-code language that takes its cues from Excel formulas. Power Fx will become the standard for writing logic customization across Microsoft’s own low-code Power Platform, but since the company is open-sourcing the language, Microsoft also hopes that others will implement it as well and that it will become […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Power Fx, a new open source low-code language

Microsoft now lets you bring your own data types to Excel

Over the course of the last few years, Microsoft started adding the concept of ‘data types’ to Excel, that is, the ability to pull in geography and real-time stock data from the cloud, for example. Thanks to its partnership with Wolfram, Excel now features over 100 of these data types that can flow into a […] Continue reading Microsoft now lets you bring your own data types to Excel

Hackers Update Age-Old Excel 4.0 Macro Attack

XLS files sent via emails appear password protected but aren’t, opening automatically to install malware from compromised macros, according to researchers. Continue reading Hackers Update Age-Old Excel 4.0 Macro Attack

Mac users warned that disabling all Office macros doesn’t actually disable all Office macros

It’s been almost 25 years since macro malware first reared its head, and it would be nice to think that the defences Microsoft has built into its Office suite in the years since would do a half-decent job of stemming the threat.
Unfortunately, it seems… Continue reading Mac users warned that disabling all Office macros doesn’t actually disable all Office macros