Data protection vendor Datto has announced it is expanding investment in the Australia and New Zealand region by opening a new Sydney office and boosting its commitment to the rapidly growing managed services market.

Data protection vendor Datto has claimed that 3% of the ransomware infections spotted by 1700 managed service providers surveyed were on Linux systems, but says there is no way to "confidently determine what the variants were".

Data protection company Datto has released the results of a ransomware survey based on data from 1700 managed service providers which shows that a sum of US$301 million was paid to attackers between the second quarter of 2016 and the second quarter of 2017.