{"id":142670,"date":"2022-07-22T18:24:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T23:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/microsoft-resumes-blocking-office-vba-macros"},"modified":"2022-07-22T18:24:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T23:24:11","slug":"microsoft-resumes-blocking-office-vba-macros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/microsoft-resumes-blocking-office-vba-macros","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Resumes Blocking Office VBA Macros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-resumes-blocking-office-vba-macros.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2022\/07\/microsoft-resumes-blocking-office-vba.html\" class=\"\"> shoppingmode Microsoft<\/a> has officially resumed blocking Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default across Office apps, weeks after temporarily announcing plans to roll back the change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on our review of customer feedback, we\u2019ve made updates to both our <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/topic\/a-potentially-dangerous-macro-has-been-blocked-0952faa0-37e7-4316-b61d-5b5ed6024216\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">end user<\/a> and our <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/DeployOffice\/security\/internet-macros-blocked\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IT admin<\/a> documentation to make clearer what options you have for different scenarios,\u201d the company <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/microsoft-365-blog\/helping-users-stay-safe-blocking-internet-macros-by-default-in\/ba-p\/3071805\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in an update on July 20.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this February, Microsoft publicized its plans to disable macros by default in Office applications such as Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word as a way to prevent threat actors from abusing the feature to deliver malware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shoppingmode Microsoft has officially resumed blocking Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default across Office apps, weeks after temporarily announcing plans to roll back the change. \u201cBased on our review of customer feedback, we\u2019ve made updates to both our end user and our IT admin documentation to make clearer what options you have for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}