I’m a technology marketer, and the annual Infosecurity and RSA security events are an opportunity for me to understand what my peers and competitors are saying to customers and potential customers. This year, as always, the events were similar. My takeaway from both is that many in the industry appear

A Chinese proverb may state, “good things come in pairs”, but this was not the case in 2017. In 2017, we discovered an email threat that was carrying not one, but two different malicious attachments as bait: a PDF file and a Microsoft Template file (OpenXML/DOTX). These were meant to

For the last two to three years, stories about real estate hacking and particularly phishing have appeared with increasing frequency in newspaper and blog headlines. Take for example the cybercriminals who stole client contact information from a DC-area real estate company, and then created a “business email compromise” (BEC) scam,

Im Juni 2017 gab es für die Logistik- und Transportindustrie ein „Novum“, als fast 80 Häfen und Terminals weltweit entweder zum Stillstand kamen oder signifikante Verspätungen verzeichneten, darunter der Port of New York and New Jersey, der Port of Los Angeles und der Rotterdamer Hafen (größter Hafen Europas) sowie der

In June of 2017, the logistics and transport industry experienced a ‘first’ when almost 80 ports and terminals around the globe either came to a standstill or experienced significant delays, including the Port of New York and New Jersey, the Port of Los Angeles, the port of Rotterdam (Europe’s largest),

Remember the big Target breach in 2013, when 40 million credit and debit cards and as many as 110 million email addresses stolen? It cost Target $292 million (according to their annual report), led to 80 lawsuits which took four years to resolve, and cost the CEO his job. Subsequent

Erinnern Sie sich noch an die große Datenschutzverletzung 2013 bei der Firma Target, als 40 Millionen Kredit- und Debitkarten und bis zu 110 Millionen E-Mail-Adressen gestohlen wurden? Dies kostete Target dem Jahresabschluss zufolge 292 Mio. US-Dollar, führte zu 80 Gerichtsverfahren, deren Beilegung vier Jahre dauerte, und kostete dem CEO seinen

Cyren recently gathered opinions from the Spiceworks IT community membership about the state of email security. We received almost 80 responses and were surprised at what appears to be a general feeling that the respondents are losing the battle against email threats. This comment from CJ Wood, catches this perfectly: 

It’s tax season, and in the 21st century that means that not only are government revenue agents awaiting your company’s and your employees’ data and looking to settle accounts, but that cybercriminals are hard at work with a variety of cyber scams aimed at diverting tax refunds and stealing sensitive

We’ve been tracking cryptocurrency mining activity here at the Cyren Security Lab and have confirmed a massive run-up in the number of web sites hosting “cryptomining” scripts globally. Based on the monitoring of a sample of 500,000 sites, we’ve found a 725% increase in the number of domains running scripts