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Macro malware isn't dead yet, if a new campaign targeting banks and financial institution is any indication.

Four days after Defense Secretary Ash Carter launched the Pentagon’snew cyber strategy, experts and officials offered a grim picture of the global threat. The threat is metastasizing in ways that will require new kinds of defenses — even while many US companies and government agencies lag on basic cybersecurity measures.
Trend Micro’s Dave Abramowitz discusses the White House hack attack with Bloomberg’s Alix Steel on “Street Smart.”
Sextortion—enticing victims to send naked or sexually suggestive pictures of themselves, which are then used to blackmail them for money or sexual favors—is not a new digital phenomenon. But the methods of accomplishing it are evolving. A new Android app has been developed expressly for use by sextortionist-minded hackers.

Times are a changing. Once a upon a time your security was all about a decent Firewall and some Anti-Virus and you were good to go. Yeah, not so much any more. Signature based Anti-Virus, as a tool to protect you from infection, is pretty much useless in this day and age. Why, because hackers and the techniques they use to infect you have evolved.