The Cyren Security Blog is where Cyren engineers and thought leaders provide insights, research and analysis on a range of current cybersecurity topics.
by Dexter To and Maharlito Aquino Introduction Originally a banking Trojan that existed in the wild as early as 2007, Qakbot (or QBot) is a pioneer of malware as a service, which is continually maintained and developed to this day. While...
What Are Social Engineering Attacks? Social engineering attacks are the manipulation of individuals to the point where they give out confidential information. The type of information these attackers may seek varies, but when individuals or employees are targeted, they...
The Solana Phantom Wallet by Kervin Alintanahin Phantom is a browser based crypto wallet where you can store, send, receive, stake and exchange tokens in the Solana blockchain. With the skyrocketing prices of crypto currencies including SOL, a crypto wallet is one of...
by Dor Nabet We’ve all experienced the typical phishing site where the attacker asks that you enter your credentials while the sketchy Microsoft logo on top of the page makes you feel comfortable doing so. Those phishing sites used to be easy to recognize: the simple...
Cyren has integrated our anti-phishing solution, Cyren Inbox Security, with KnowBe4’s security awareness training platform. This idea began with a very basic customer feature request but has evolved into a new paradigm for defending enterprises against phishing and...
Supercharging Your Enterprise Malware Detection Organizational users rely on multiple tools and products to improve their productivity and collaboration. These enterprise tools allow companies to share a large number of files such as PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, and...
Every IT admin has asked themselves, “How can I stop phishing attacks?” Phishing is unfortunately one of the most common, effective, and damaging attacks hackers can use to break into bank accounts, steal data, take money and overall – scam your company. Phishing...
The Industry Edition This blog is part of our monthly blog series analyzing incident response data from Cyren threat researchers and Cyren security clouds including Cyren Inbox Security. This month, the research team analyzed the data by industry to confirm our...
Scam Warning by Kervin Alintanahin Back in January, LinkedIn posted a warning about connection requests from individuals impersonating employees of a legitimate organization. These requests come from newly created accounts. If someone accepts the request, the...
by Kervin Alintanahin Multiple Targets Discord Administrators/Moderators and NFT project members were targeted today in a well-planned social engineering attack. Attackers managed to take over sessions of some privileged Discord accounts and used them to send...