Online Business — Icing on the Phisher’s Cake As businesses accelerated their digital transformation over the past year, Cyren Inbox Security has been observing huge increases in the number of phishing incidents related to User Generated Content (UGC) platforms. This increase makes sense as bad actors take advantage of business
Email threat intelligence is knowledge and data about emerging security threats, such as potential phishing attacks, and how they can be stopped. Email threat intelligence is becoming increasingly important in order to identify and block new threats. Having real-time data on email threats worldwide is critical in order to stop
Despite investing a record $3B in Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) in 2019, US companies still lost $1.7B to phishing. As threats grow in sophistication and number, traditional defenses frequently fail to detect and remediate phishing, business email compromise, and targeted ransomware attacks. This is not to say SEGs and their
Does a perfect email security solution exist? The answer is right in front of you, but not in the way you think. Tell me who your user is, I will tell who you are We all know users are considered the weakest link in any email security program. What if
This is a follow up to the July edition published last month. For this August edition of Phishing by the numbers, we’re presenting summary statistics along with a deeper dive into a specific customer. Summary Statistics In August, Cyren detected nearly 24,000 confirmed email threats that evaded detection by the
From July 20 until August 16, 2021, Cyren observed a significant increase in the number of Square Enix phishing URLs. The campaign coincided with 14 days of free play announced by Square Enix on July 12, 2021. During this period, we detected a total of 47,076 URLs for an average
The Cyren Incident and Response research team continuously collects phishing data and identifies the most effective phishing attacks using Cyren Inbox Security (CIS), the company’s flagship Inbox Detection and Response* solution. CIS directly connects to Office 365, continuously detecting and automatically capturing phishing attacks that evade secure email gateways and
According to Microsoft, Safe Links is a feature of Microsoft 365 Defender (f.k.a. Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft Defender for Office 365) that helps protect from users clicking on malicious URLs in emails. This feature provides URL scanning as well as rewriting of inbound emails within the mail flow, and time-of-click
I recently received an SMS notification from my bank about possible fraudulent activity on my credit card account. While waiting for an agent to take my call, I browsed through Facebook to look for their support page. Unfortunately, I found two pages that looked almost exactly alike. The difference
Mysterious Transformation from Scammer to Executive Manager Trust but verify – how often have you heard this saying? Most likely a lot, it’s so easy for users to forget this important instruction when our email inboxes are busier than ever. As the number of sent and received emails has increased
