From July 20 until August 16, 2021, Cyren observed a significant increase in the number of Square Enix phishing URLs. The campaign coincided with 14 days of free play...
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New detection category for eXpurgate customers
For more than a year, many employees have been working remotely and may never return to the companies' offices. This trend brings a lot of challenges for IT Security....
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),...
Alert: Fraudsters Stealing Bank Account Details via Fake Facebook Pages
I recently received an SMS notification from my bank about possible fraudulent activity on my credit card account. While waiting for an agent to take my call, I browsed...
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 attack intended to scam organizations out of money through the...
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...
Axie Infinity Player Wallets Targeted by Poisoned Google Ads Content
The top NFT Ethereum-based game Axie infinity, is a Pokemon-like play-to-earn game that lets its users earn SLP (Smooth Love Potion). This potion can be traded as a...
How Phishers Abuse Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) Protocol
What is the first thing that comes to mind when we see sites using HTTPS protocol? Subconsciously we tend to trust these sites presuming that all that we see and/or...