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What Are Office 365 Safe Attachments?

Office 365 Safe Attachments is a feature of Microsoft 365 Advanced Threat Protection (also known as Microsoft 365 Defender) that provides another layer of protection to incoming emails by scanning its attachments for malicious software. Phishing emails and attacks are more prevalent than ever with the FBI Internet Crime Complaint

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What is a Zero-Day Phishing Attack? Identifying Vulnerabilities & More

“Zero-day” is a term that broadly describes a series of recently discovered cybersecurity vulnerabilities hackers utilize to attack systems. This term, “zero-day”, often refers to the fact that the developers have just learned about the flaw. Hackers will exploit flaws they find before developers even have a chance to address

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What is Smishing? Prevention, Examples & More

Key Points: Smishing is causing millions of dollars in losses. Robokiller insights show that consumers have received over 12 billion in robotexts. Fraudsters are smart people who are very good at designing texts that make people take immediate action. When receiving a text message that claims to be from your

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Ransomware: protect yourself or pay

Cyren offers ransomware protection from cyber-attacks through powerful cloud-based email security services. What is ransomware? Ransomware is a cyber attack that encrypts your files until you pay. This type of attack is malware that employs encryption – holding a victim’s information at ransom. A user or organization’s data is first

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Office 365 Phishing, BEC, & Ransomware Survey Highlights

Reading a complete report is not for everyone. If that includes you, here are the key takeaways from the 2022 Osterman report on Phishing, BEC, and Ransomware Threats for Microsoft 365 Customers. “Less than half the organizations ranked their currently deployed email security solutions effective. Respondents felt least confident in

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IRS Scams 2022

Tax scams are so prevalent that the United States Internal Revenue Service has published a very long FAQ page to warn people of the risks. As we approach the peak of the income tax season in the United States, we can expect cyber-criminals to increase their efforts to intercept tax

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Cybercriminals Unleash Ukrainian Crypto Scams

Over 100K daily fake donation emails uncovered by the Cyren research team Cybercriminals know which techniques increase their chances of successfully scamming unsuspecting victims, shamelessly exploiting any event regardless of human suffering to achieve monetary gain. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is no exception. Over the past two weeks, the

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Please Approve This Account Takeover

The pandemic has changed the way we live, the way we work. The world is becoming increasingly digitized as more employees embrace a remote work model. Along with these changes, phishing attacks are growing by the minute and businesses, big and small, face the need to implement robust email security,

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Crypter Malware: A Deep Dive Into NSIS-Based Crypters

We have been observing that malware is being distributed via NSIS-based crypter. Malware such as FormBook, AgentTesla, GULoader, just to name a few, have been using NSIS as their loader. We have seen several ways of obfuscation implemented with the installer that decrypts and directly loads the malware into memory

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