As phishing emails and ransomware continue to find their way into the user inbox, we are led to the following idea — email security is broken. It has become obvious that companies are attempting to defend against today’s sophisticated attacks using technology developed to block spam and detect malware. In

Emotet malware campaigns continue to evolve, below we share a breakdown of samples of two new malicious downloader variants that appeared toward the end of January 2020, including lists of IOCs and payload detections for each. To give a sense of timing, you can see in this chart the samples

As the final crush is on for Christmas shopping, keep in mind that online retailers and financial sites are still the most popular targets for phishing, according to recent analysis by the Cyren security lab. To learn which brands were the most frequently targeted by phishers, Cyren analysts extracted about

The Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) has been used in commercial applications since the early 2000s. As its name suggests, it is a mechanism for ascertaining that a real human is performing an action at a web site. CAPTCHA is generated by distorting

In the past week we’ve been receiving reports of different—but seemingly related—email malware campaigns targeting banks in both the US and Europe, specifically in the form of Excel Workbooks containing a malicious macro being sent as an attachment to emails. What’s interesting is that even though the email themes used

Symantec’s acquisition by Broadcom, announced recently, represents yet another major change for this cyber security vendor and service provider. Given the explicitly stated intention to focus only on the largest 2000 organisations globally, only time will tell what the impact will be on its smaller enterprise and mid-market customers.  For

Phishing-as-a-Service stellt benutzerfreundliche Phishing-Angriffstools und sogar vollständige Kampagnen zu günstigen Preisen zur Verfügung. Je nach Service-Level kostet ein Full-Service-Abonnement im Bereich von 50 bis 80 US-Dollar pro Monat und realistische Phishing-Web Kits stehen für nur 50 US-Dollar zum Download bereit. Das Cyren-Forschungslabor hat in diesem Jahr bereits 5.334 neue, einzigartige

The global gaming phenomenon Fortnite has a huge global user base – last reported in March at 250 million gamers – and the just-concluded Fortnite World Cup with its $30 million prize pool and an online viewing audience of over two million has certainly only added to its allure. Over

Erreichen Phishing-E-Mails immer wieder Ihre Benutzer und möchten Sie einmal quantifizieren, wie effektiv Ihre E-Mail-Sicherheit tatsächlich ist? E-Mail ist der Hauptangriffsweg, um ein Unternehmen mit Malware zu infizieren, und wird heutzutage fast immer mit Phishing in Verbindung gebracht. Es ist also immer sinnvoll, sich einen Überblick darüber zu verschaffen, ob

Do you keep seeing phishing emails getting through to users, and wish you could quantify how effective your email security is—or isn’t? Email is the main vehicle for introducing malware into an organization, and is practically synonymous with phishing these days, so it is a sensible idea to get a