Microsoft issued security advisory regarding DDE

Nov. 13, 2017

As email attachments are a primary method an attacker could use to spread malware, Microsoft issued a security advisory regarding potentially harmful attachments containing DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange), which enables dynamic data loading/updating for documents. Improved security can help in such scenarios where the user disregards warnings and clicks through them. On the other hand, disabling of this feature completely limits the functionality of the MS Office.