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AN ASSESSMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IOT THREATS IN 2015 AND BEYOND

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

Old-New Macro malware meets Old-New “missed courier delivery” Trick

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

Reconnaissance Macro Malware

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

CYREN 2015 Cyber Threats Yearbook: Stats, Cyber Analysis and Prediction for 2015

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

Richard Spires’ Keynote at DGI Enterprise Architecture Conference & Expo

Richard A. Spires, CEO, Resilient Network Systems, Inc., and former CIO of the US Department of Homeland Security, will be delivering the opening Keynote presentation at the DGI: Digital Government Institute’s Enterprise Architecture Conference & Expo, the morning of April 30, 2015 (8:30am-3:00pm EDT) at the Ronald Reagan Building’s Pavilion

Gazon SMS Trojan targets Android users by promising Amazon gift cards

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

Revisiting Old Cybercriminal Techniques: PSYME Malware Revival

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

Security-as-a-Service: Applied Cyber Intelligence for Enterprises

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