OneNote is a software part of the Office suite, commonly used within most organisations for note-keeping, task management and more. In the last year, OneNote gained more attention from a security perspective, mostly thanks to the research paper published by Emeric Nasi.

Thousands of small to medium size businesses are suffering as Rackspace have suffered a security incident on their Hosted Exchange service. Yesterday, 2nd December 2022, Rackspace announced an outage to their Hosted Exchange Server:

Two days ago, Nao_sec identified an odd looking Word document in the wild, uploaded from an IP address in Belarus...

Two days ago, Nao_sec identified an odd looking Word document in the wild, uploaded from an IP address in Belarus...

Recently, there has been a resurgence of malware that is spread via Microsoft Word macro capabilities....

Recently, there has been a resurgence of malware that is spread via Microsoft Word macro capabilities....

Changing Default Behavior We’re introducing a default change for five Office apps that run macros: VBA macros obtained from the internet will now be blocked by default.

Changing Default Behavior We’re introducing a default change for five Office apps that run macros: VBA macros obtained from the internet will now be blocked by default.