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		weltensturm on April 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informa... It looks like they switched from .doc to .docx in January, I wonder if the old format was the attack vector

annoyingnoob on April 27, 2021 [–]

.doc can contain macros that do bad things

.docx cannot contain macros

londons_explore on April 27, 2021 | [–]

I don't think thats true...

jaywalk on April 27, 2021 | | [–]

It is true. .docx files cannot contain macros, but .docm files can. The same x/m convention applies to all of the other Office file formats as well.

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