The Cyren Email Archiving service protects business messages and simplifies regulatory compliance. The service is offered as part of Cyren’s enterprise security platform, which integrates web security, email security, DNS security, cloud sandboxing and now, email archiving, on a single globally-operated Security-as-a-Service platform. “Our customers value our cloud expertise and

If you find your CPU spiking while browsing some website, it may be you’ve just loaned your computer resources to a virtual currency mining operation. The Pirate Bay website was caught having deployed such a “miner” on its site in mid-September, which borrows its visitor’s CPU and/or graphics card resources

The second-annual Cyren-Osterman Research U.S. security survey shows a significant disconnect between rising IT security spending and a low level of confidence in current protection, among many topics covered in the 24-page report, IT Security at SMBs: 2017 Benchmarking Survey, available for free download. Security Budgets Up Sharply On average,

It shouldn’t surprise anybody to learn that cybercriminals are taking their lead from some established business service models. We wrote about Botnet distribution services here, and the concepts apply equally to other corners of the malware “industry.” In February 2016, the “Cerber” ransomware first appeared in the form of Ransomware-as-a-Service

With the recent return of Locky and continued growth of ransomware and ransomware-as-a-service, there is a good chance you personally know an individual or company that has experienced such an attack or another similar threat. If you work in the computer or security industry, you might also often be asked

If you want to know what a cyber-war looks like, read the news. And if you want to get up to speed quickly and try to make sense of all that news, I recommend downloading our new special report on malware, with a special nod to the included interview of

Trickbot is back, new and improved, and was found targeting customers of Lloyds Bank of the UK last week in a renewed phishing campaign intended to steal online banking users’ security codes. The updated version of the malware, which first appeared last year, uses new techniques to make it even

  Botnets have become a trend in 2022 and will likely continue to be a threat in 2023. According to Spamhaus’s Q4 2021 Botnet Threat Update, they reported there was a 23% increase in botnet C&C attacks from Q3 to Q4 in 2021. Additionally, there were 300,000 instances of Emotet

  Although the term ‘botnet’ is generally associated with cybercrime and maliciousness, it should come as no surprise that there are, in fact, fully legitimate and entirely useful botnets—better known as “distributed computing systems”—at work around the globe. In fact, someone you know may even have willingly allowed their computer

Becoming an Internet criminal is getting easier and easier. With only a few hundred dollars in hand and an Internet connection, anyone can obtain the software and support to build a botnet. After the initial outlay of cash, a criminal botmaster can quickly gain a significant return on investment through