Insights on Data Security & Threat Intelligence
Every IT admin has asked themselves, “How can I stop phishing attacks?” Phishing is unfortunately one of the most common, effective, and damaging attacks hackers can use to break into bank accounts, steal data, take money and overall – scam your company. Phishing attacks have always been on the rise,
The Industry Edition 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. This month, the research team analyzed the data by industry to confirm our suspicion that certain types of companies are targeted more
Scam Warning Back in January, LinkedIn posted a warning about connection requests from individuals impersonating employees of a legitimate organization. These requests come from newly created accounts. If someone accepts the request, the attackers will have more access to the victim’s data. With this information, they can create specific
Multiple Targets Discord Administrators/Moderators and NFT project members were targeted today in a well-planned social engineering attack. Attackers managed to take over sessions of some privileged Discord accounts and used them to send messages to servers/users in Discord. Since the messages and announcement came from moderators’ accounts, it is likely
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 started functioning online, leaving a great opportunity for the bad
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 RTF exploit, CVE-2017-11882, being used by threat actors to
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 an email, direct message, or
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 structural changes in the retail business industry. With these changes, organizations have an
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 Phish. Below are some statistics about that “Phight”
