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

2015 will be another tough year in the continuing fight against cybercrime. Today’s Internet threat landscape is highly dynamic, as thousands of malicious actors disseminate hundreds of millions of global threats daily. While some actors are hacktivist organizations and even nation-states, the main threat remains that of well-funded cybercriminal gangs.