Despite investing a record $3B in Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) in 2019, US companies still lost $1.7B to phishing. As threats grow in sophistication and number,...
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Phishing by the numbers – August 2021
This is a follow up to the July edition published last month. For this August edition of Phishing by the numbers, we’re presenting summary statistics along with a...
Phishing by the numbers – July 2021
The Cyren Incident and Response research team continuously collects phishing data and identifies the most effective phishing attacks using Cyren Inbox Security (CIS),...
Call Me An Impostor
Mysterious Transformation from Scammer to Executive Manager Trust but verify - how often have you heard this saying? Most likely a lot, it’s so easy for users to forget...
What is Business Email Compromise (BEC)?
Business Email Compromise (BEC) – also known as email account compromise (EAC) – is a type of phishing or social engineering attack intended to scam organizations out...
2021 Phishing & BEC Attacks
I’ve been very busy this summer, which is why I’m just now reading the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Here are a few takeaways from the section about...
Security Awareness Training Won’t Give CISOs or Employees Peace of Mind
I attended a virtual roundtable discussion with CISOs this week. The session opened with a somber question: what keeps you up at night? The overwhelming majority of...
Email spoofing BEC attack targeting numerous employees at once
Spear-phishing spoofed attacks have been and remain one of the most substantial cyber threats that organizations face nowadays. And once we talk about spear-phishing,...