The Internet of Things (IoT) is hot. From light bulbs to refrigerators to smart TVs, companies are under tremendous pressure to get new IoT devices to market and consumers are instantly snapping them up. In fact, the number of devices that are or will shortly be connected to the Internet

We have covered the resurgence of macro malware at length in our Security Yearbook. Recap – after an absence of around 10-15 years macro malware returned with a vengeance in the last 2 months of 2014. This time the new-old malware is paired with a favorite of the email malware

Looking back on 2014, it has been an incredibly dynamic year in the world of cyberthreats. It takes only two names to sum up the impact the cybercriminal had on the 2014 headlines: Home Depot and Sony. The Home Depot breach yielded about 110 million stolen pieces of sensitive information,

We reported in our 2015 Cyber Threats Yearbook about the return of macro malware in today’s threat landscape, as we have observed malicious documents being used to deliver further malware into the system by either dropping or downloading from compromised sites. We recently acquired a malicious document, which does not

Our 2015 Cyber Threats Yearbook has just been released! Introduced by CTO Lior Kohavi, the comprehensive report analyzes many of last year’s most notable cybercrime trends as collected by CYREN’s GlobalView Cloud which monitors 17 billion transactions each day to protect more than 600 million users.   In addition to highlighting

Gazon is a malware targeting Android phones that sends multiple SMS text messages to every contact in the victim’s phone book. After opening the malware on the Android device the victim is told that he has won an Amazon gift card for $200. To redeem the gift card the victim

Zeus, ZeuS, or Zbot; a Trojan horse computer malware, has been around for a long time. It is known that the Zeus bot sends out spam emails that contain an executable binary which will download and install a bot program into the affected machine. Recently, we detected a Zeus Bot

When applying the concept of trust to the security-as-a-service (SecaaS) delivery model, it is useful to think in terms of security history. With access to the Internet and email came viruses, spam drive-by downloads and phishing, and the corresponding perimeter security software and hardware to protect corporate systems. But, software

Last week, CYREN detected interesting emails that contained links to fake video pages. We have included a screenshot of the email. The rough translation of the subject line is “hidden camera in their house”, and the Youtube link looks like it might deliver the goods – but of course the

In the battle to defend against the ever-increasing volume and variety of threats, security solutions like firewalls, signature-based antivirus, and blacklisting may be ineffective. This is because the criminals know that the data that powers them may lag new threats by days or even weeks. Cybercriminals have now further raised