Default macro blocking prompts ransomware attack changes

Threat actors have been veering from leveraging Office macros in ransomware attacks since Microsoft announced that such macros would be disabled by default, with the rate of pre-ransomware events using VBA or Excel 4.0 macros dropping from 55% to 9% between the first and second quarter of 2022, VentureBeat reports.

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