Like macros before it, attackers have been placing malicious code alongside object linking and embedding (OLE) code, along with well-formatted text and images, to spread malware and ransomware.

One nice thing about Microsoft Office applications is that they’ve been designed to talk to each other. For example, you can take an Excel chart and place it in a Word document to illustrate a report.

A Windows utility that embeds a document as an icon inside another document. It is part of Windows' OLE (object linking and embedding). It also allows objects created by non-OLE-compliant applications ...

More cybercriminals used object linking and embedding, or OLE packages, to deliver malware content during the first quarter of 2017, according to cybersecurity technology and services company PhishMe ...

Introduced in the late 1990s, OPC quickly became a global standard for communications to Microsoft Windows computers. Tens of thousands of OPC servers were deployed in every corner of the automation ...

Malware laced OpenDocument files target Microsoft Office, OpenOffice and LibreOffice users. Attackers have a new obfuscation technique that uses the OpenDocument file format for sneaking payloads past ...

There's a new twist in the recently patched Microsoft Office zero-day that suggests the bug was being used on a larger scale than first thought. Now, security researchers at FireEye believe that ...

Hackers are using a novel phishing technique to deliver remote access trojans (RAT) to unsuspecting victims, experts have warned. This is according to cybersecurity experts Perception Point, who ...

Cyberattackers are exploiting a vulnerability that allows them to evade detection by antivirus software and deliver malware via Microsoft PowerPoint. The flaw in the Windows Object Linking and ...

One of a heaping collection of critical bug fixes pushed out by Microsoft on December 8 as part of the company's monthly "Patch Tuesday" was an update to the Microsoft Office suite designed to close a ...