Microsoft plans to add a feature to Office Excel that will make it harder for cyberattackers to exploit the spreadsheet application's "add-ins" function to run malicious code on a victim's computer.

A new report urges Microsoft Excel users to take action to protect themselves from a dramatic rise in cyberattacks using malicious add-in files. In its Threat Insights Report for the fourth quarter of ...

Microsoft is working on adding XLL add-in protection for Microsoft 365 customers by including automated blocking of all such files downloaded from the Internet. This will help tackle the rise of ...

Microsoft says the Excel spreadsheet software is now blocking untrusted XLL add-ins by default in Microsoft 365 tenants worldwide. The company announced this change in January with a new entry added ...

The Solver add-in for Microsoft Excel is one of the most important, so we can understand the frustrations when users cannot get it to work as they hope. In older versions of Excel, folks had to ...

On our terminal servers, we have a couple hundred users who are using Excel with a new OLAP tool, and we need to make sure the Excel add-in for that tool is activated for everyone ... Especially the ...

A wave of cyberattacks is exploiting Microsoft Excel add-in files in order to deliver several forms of malware in campaigns that could leave businesses vulnerable to data theft, ransomware and other ...

If you use Word or Excel to edit a document or spreadsheet on your iPad, you can make use of add-ins. Here is how to install and use add-ins in Microsoft Word and Excel for iPad so that you can ...

Microsoft has announced plans for its 365 customers to automatically block all XLL add-in files downloaded from the internet to prevent phishing attacks relying on these types of lures. Writing on its ...