Hungarian researcher Gabor Szappanos has published a white paper on how VBA malware is still alive and kicking. VBA macros are used to automate functions and make programs like Word and Excel much more powerful. Microsoft Office applications have been designed to prevent malicious VBA code from running. The new scourge seeks to entice the user into enabling the VBA macro option, thereby granting permission for the malicious code to run. The attack itself is notand does not have to bevery sophisticated. Social engineering is a much simpler method of achieving goals.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2451611/vba-macros-are-a-serious-malware-threat-once-again.html