If you want to turn off Dynamic Data Exchange or DDE in Excel, here is everything you need to know about Dynamic Data Exchange and how to disable it.There are three ways to do that – using Excel ...

It appears when Excel fails to fetch a few settings, such as Data Connections, Linked Data Types, Dynamic Data Exchange, Microsoft Query files, etc.

The Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program, in combination with its Power Query data-fetching component, can be leveraged in so-called 'Dynamic Data Exchange' (DDE) types of attacks.

It can be used for a one-time data exchange or continuous data exchanges. A potential exploit leveraging DDE is described in Microsoft's advisory, but it's about attacks initiated using e-mail file ...

This feature is called Microsoft Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) ... For example, a Word file can update a table by pulling data from an Excel file every time the Word file is opened.

Microsoft published guidance for Windows admins on how to safely disable Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) fields in Office that are being used to spread malware in email-based attacks.

Attackers are using Microsoft’s Dynamic Data Exchange protocol to download and install malware, ... “This document contains links that may refer to other files.

Redmond says trusted docs are files with active content (e.g., ActiveX controls, macros, and Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) functions that don't require user interaction) that open without warnings ...

With APT28 now using Microsoft's Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) as an attack point, the company has issued an official advisory concerning the practice, along with possible mitigation methods. The ...