“Even though we are early in the year, it is clear 2015 is shaping up to be noteworthy in terms of volume, ingenuity and sophistication of attacks.” “Ransomware is very much top of mind for IT managers in Australia and New Zealand as we see fresh campaigns from cyber-criminals regularly,” said Dhanya Thakkar, managing director at Trend Micro Asia Pacific. The FREAK flaw also posed further security challenges as it presented more vulnerabilities in open source operating systems and applications.
There has been a resurgence of macro-malware, with 5 per cent of the world’s macro-malware detected in Australia in Q1 2015.
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