Microsoft has announced that Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros will now be disabled by default to protect customers from malicious documents. In October, the company first revealed in a Microsoft 365 message ...

Microsoft is starting to enable the restriction of Excel 4.0 macros (XLM) by default for users of Excel in subscriptions, starting with Excel build 16.0.14427.20000 and newer releases, according to a ...

Researchers discover progressively complex and effective XL4 attacks that take advantage of the many organizations that still rely on the old functionality. Excel 4.0 macros have been around for ...

A Microsoft announcement that the company would be disabling macros as a default feature in Excel 4.0 has been greeted as a step that "would really help defenders". British security expert Kevin ...

Avaddon ransomware has been spreading this week via an old technique that's making a comeback, Microsoft cautions on Thursday. The attacks appear to be more targeted and rely on malicious Excel 4.0 ...

XLS files sent via emails appear password protected but aren’t, opening automatically to install malware from compromised macros, according to researchers. Hackers have updated the age-old Excel ...

You've got to be a real cybergeezer to remember using Excel 4, given that it was replaced by Excel 5 in 1993. After almost 30 years, surely everyone is running a more ...