The Cyren Security Blog is where Cyren engineers and thought leaders provide insights, research and analysis on a range of current cybersecurity topics.
by Ira Chernous For the past three months, most media news headlines have been talking about a painful subject that leaves no one indifferent: the war. Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the international community has...
Email threat intelligence is knowledge and data about emerging security threats, such as potential phishing attacks, and how they can be stopped. Email threat intelligence is becoming increasingly important in order to identify and block new threats. Having real-time...
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, traditional defenses frequently fail to detect and remediate phishing, business email compromise, and...
by Ira Chernous Does a perfect email security solution exist? The answer is right in front of you, but not in the way you think. Tell me who your user is, I will tell who you are We all know users are considered the weakest link in any email security program. What if...
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 deeper dive into a specific customer. Summary Statistics In August, Cyren detected nearly 24,000...
by Joy Celine Faltado 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 announced by Square Enix on July 12, 2021. During this period, we detected a...
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. Although infrastructure and devices are under control of the IT teams, working remotely has...
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. Although infrastructure and devices are under control of the IT teams, working remotely has...
The Cyren Incident and Response research team continuously collects phishing data and identifies the most effective phishing attacks using Cyren Inbox Security (CIS), the company’s flagship Inbox Detection and Response* solution. CIS directly connects to Office 365,...
According to Microsoft, Safe Links is a feature of Microsoft 365 Defender (f.k.a. Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft Defender for Office 365) that helps protect from users clicking on malicious URLs in emails. This feature provides URL scanning as well as rewriting...