We live in a connected world where we are meant to succeed through partnerships: the Wright Brothers introduced us to fixed-wing flight and opened the world to air travel; Lennon and McCartney were the creative force behind the Beatles—one of the most influential music bands in history; Larry Page and
Compliance: Why It Matters and How to Achieve It Why Compliance? According to a recent report on data security compliance, industries ranging from retail to healthcare to banking claim that protecting data to comply with corporate policies, industry regulations, or data privacy laws is very important, especially in sectors which are highly
This week, we attended the Structure Security conference in San Francisco’s Presidio Golden Gate Club. It was billed as a conference that “will highlight the best practices that security professionals are using to protect some of the world’s largest companies and institutions, and examine the future of security products, services,
Attorneys: Is Your Information Governance Rock Solid? Great architecture begins with a rock-solid foundation. Builders envision elaborate structures, but when the foundation is not firm, trouble is sure to follow. At best, a building leans; at worst, it completely topples over. In the Information Age, businesses, especially law firms, don’t
A new generation of hyper-evasive malware is defeating legacy sandboxing technology and driving new security countermeasures underpinned by the elastic processing capacity of the cloud, as Cyren’s VP of Threat Research explains in an article in the September issue of (IN)SECURE Magazine. In the article, Sigurdur Stefnisson reviews the evolution
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For Folder Structure and Metadata – Why You Must Have Both Bono’s lyrics from U2’s hit song describe his search for love, truth, and substance: “I have run; I have crawled;I have scaled these city walls . . .and I still haven’t found
Movie and TV watchers who download pirated content have long been warned of the potential for malware that might accompany their chosen media. Now use is again being made of Digital Rights Management (DRM) functionality — designed to prevent piracy — to distribute malware. The new attack, brought to Cyren’s
Duplicates: Files vs Records & Why You Need to Know the Difference Within each database, and eventually, each enterprise content management (ECM) system, businesses must manage the limits of storage. Relational databases are filled with countless records and files; unfortunately, many of those are duplicated, which take up much-needed storage
Cyren caught a new Locky email spam campaign today which uses a new tactic, delivering the Locky downloader script component as an HTML application, specifically HTA files. The emails are disguised as voice message notifications sent by Peach Telecom, which suggests that the campaign is targeting users in the UK.
We are now seeing a new wave of Locky, which has yet again updated its delivery mechanism by adding another layer of obfuscation to its downloader script, which Cyren detects as JS/Locky.AT!Eldorado. We previously reported our detection of key changes in Locky’s methods on June 27 (new sandbox evasion techniques),
