Category: Blog

You Should Enlist Your Employees in Threat Detection

Your employees’ instincts are incredibly valuable and can help you crowdsource threats. With Cyren Inbox Security, they’re one click away from flagging an email as suspicious, and telling Cyren to search for lookalike emails in the system. How IDRs leverage user data Though it’s often positioned as the “last line

Multi-factor Authentication and Advanced Use Cases

Data443 Risk Mitigation Development Blog by Damien O., Advanced Platform Developer at Data443 The past week has been very busy for the DataExpress Open Platform (DXOP) developers. One of the features they have been working on is 2-factor authentication for the Administrative UI, which adds a new level of security

How to Simplify Digital Communication Archiving under Remote Learning

The classroom has moved into living rooms and kitchens of families across the US and collaborative technologies are being used more than ever. As educators move to an online setting, they are experiencing a substantial unanticipated increase in data usage. Many k-12 Systems Admins are looking to streamline and simplify their Digital

Covid-19 Exposes a Newly Remote Workforce to More Evasive Phishing Attacks

With the world threatened and preoccupied by Covid-19, cybercriminals are taking advantage of the chaos. In the past month, we’ve seen: A surge in malware using Excel4 Macros (XLM) in hidden worksheets, under the guise of “Important information about CoVid-19” AgentTesla sending an email posing to have an order of

8 Key Best Practices for Archiving Digital Communication in the New Normal

In today’s online classroom, more communication is happening amongst staff and students than ever before, and schools are still required to comply with their applicable state and federal laws. Most, if not all, of k-12 schools have implemented an email archiving solution – although, they may be looking for guidance as data volume

How has data compliance changed under the “new normal”?

Dear Educators, So, this is the “New Normal” that everyone has been talking about – a time in which peak internet traffic is up over 45%. Millions of US students have abruptly made the switch to remote learning in the past weeks, and with this brings a magnitude of unanticipated data growth as

Covid AgentTesla

With the world under threat of the COVID-19 aka corona virus, many cybercriminals are taking this opportunity to blend in the chaos. Here we have an email posing to have an order of masks. An important personal protection equipment that is on a very high demand as of this moment. 

Excel4 Macro Malware Delivers Gozi/Ursnif via a VelvetSweatshop Revival

We have been seeing a surge in Excel malware using Excel4 Macros (XLM) in hidden worksheets. Recently, malicious actors started reviving an age-old technique to further hide the malicious XLM code by leveraging the VelvetSweatshop secret password in Excel workbooks. What is Macro Malware?  Macro malware has been a popular

File-less (almost) and Confused

Amidst the crisis the world is going through because of the Covid-19 pandemic, malicious actors continue to take advantage of the situation to lure unsuspecting online consumers into installing malware into their systems. We have recently found reports of malicious Powerpoint slides being sent through email, which are disguised as

Schützen Sie sich mit tiefgehender E-Mail-Sicherheit (Email Security Defense-in-Depth) vor Evasive Phishing

Phishing-E-Mails und Ransomware finden weiterhin ihren Weg in die Posteingänge. Da könnte einem der Gedanke kommen: E-Mail-Sicherheit funktioniert einfach nicht. Es ist offensichtlich, dass Unternehmen beim Versuch, sich vor den ausgetüftelten Angriffen von heute zu schützen, Technologie einsetzen, die ursprünglich dazu konzipiert war, Spam und Malware zu blockieren. Ende der