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Microsoft Office: dangerous Excel XLL add-ins  
Microsoft Office: dangerous Excel XLL add-ins

Now that Microsoft has again deactivated foreign VBA macros in Office by default and does not run them, there is one less attack vector. Again and again there were dangerous Excel add-ins with the XLL file extension that executed malware after a click. Now Microsoft is shutting down that threat as well—but not until March 2023. According to The Register, Microsoft will begin blocking Excel XLL add-ins from the web in March to take down an increasingly popular attack vector for cybercriminals. In a brief note on the Microsoft 365 roadmap, the manufacturer explained that this move was in response to "the increasing...

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