The Cyren Security Blog is where Cyren engineers and thought leaders provide insights, research and analysis on a range of current cybersecurity topics.
by Kervin Alintanahin Recently, we have received an increase in the number of malicious email samples with password-protected attachments. The recent waves of attacks with Emotet use a similar approach. In this blog we describe our...
by Ksenia Belianskaya The Covid-19 pandemic not only killed millions of people, but it also drastically changed the retail landscape. In fact, you could say that it killed the retail industry. However, this fact was not a disadvantage for phishers; loads of shops...
by Maharlito Aquino Formbook, a well-known family of malware that steals information by grabbing user input from forms, has been seen over the past months for actively repackaging itself to gain more ground in the threat landscape. This time we have seen a well-known...
What is Spear Phishing? Spear phishing is a highly targeted phishing attack, which is focused on a specific person or group of people. In these cases, a perpetrator, who is typically disguised as a trusted individual, deceives a target into clicking a spoofed link in...
by Illia Hereha The global coronavirus pandemic has forced companies to reevaluate how digital channels can be used to support business continuity through the crisis and beyond. The crisis is fundamentally changing how and what consumers buy and accelerating immense...
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. October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the theme for the week of October 11 is Phight the...
Email threats are always evolving. As email has become crucial to business communications, hackers have found new ways to use email in order to breach corporate security. From routine email threats such as viruses and spam to more advanced such as phishing,...
Phishing scams are one of the most common ways hackers gain access to sensitive or confidential information. In fact, 75% of organizations around the world experienced some kind of phishing attack in 2020. But, what is phishing? A phishing attack includes sending...
What is Phishing Attack Prevention? Phishing attack prevention refers to companies taking security measures in order to prevent phishing attacks on their employees. The measures taken to improve phishing protection can help you avoid detrimental impacts on your...
by Ira Chernous Online Business — Icing on the Phisher’s Cake As businesses accelerated their digital transformation over the past year, Cyren Inbox Security has been observing huge increases in the number of phishing incidents related to User Generated Content (UGC)...