Insights on Data Security & Threat Intelligence
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Almost 94% of all malware attacks are delivered via email. These attacks may include ransomware, adware, spyware, and more. Lately we have observed a growing trend of distributing malware through password-protected email attachments. Let’s look at an example of what this kind of malware attack looks like so that you
Anatomy of an Attack: Evasive Zoom phishing campaign using multiple phishing techniques at once In the final days of November, Cyren Inbox Security detected a massive phishing attack with a fake Microsoft 365 login page. Interestingly, they used many techniques to make the attack more evasive. Related: Microsoft reports a
Dark side of high Alexa domains How much do you trust such services as Google, Windows, Dropbox? And what about the open access libraries? One more important question is, how much your employees use such services in their daily routine? According to the Cyren Inbox Security traffic statistic, vast amounts
I attended a virtual roundtable discussion with CISOs this week. The session opened with a somber question: what keeps you up at night? The overwhelming majority of CISOs said they’re afraid users will click on something they shouldn’t. And rightfully so – according to the 2019 Global Data Exposure Report,
Spear-phishing spoofed attacks have been and remain one of the most substantial cyber threats that organizations face nowadays. And once we talk about spear-phishing, we can’t help but mention business email compromise (BEC) attacks which if successful result in staggering losses for the companies: the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center
Over the last few weeks Cyren has observed a massive spike in phishing sites hosted on the appspot.com domain that Google uses for its free Google App Engine. Taking advantage of soft routing on Google App Engine Google App Engine is a cloud-based development platform used to host and develop
Last month Microsoft released a sobering Digital Defense Report. From their perch powering 600,000 enterprises’ cloud inboxes (in the United States alone), they report: Malware attacks are decreasing. Instead 70% of attacks are through phishing emails, largely to harvest credentials. Attackers are laying long-term traps that scour the internet looking
Lately, among the myriad phishing attacks we observe and detect via Cyren Inbox Security, attacks that are distributed via email delivery services (like SendGrid, MailChimp, and MailJet) are increasingly common. How Attackers Take Advantage of Email Delivery Platforms Email magnitude – Email delivery services don’t usually limit the total
