SECURITY EXPERTS ON REPORT HIGHLIGHTS NATION-STATE CYBERTHREATS FACING SMBS IN 2020

Cybersecurity firm AppRiver released its Q4 Cyberthreat Index for Business Survey, highlighting the threats facing small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as we transition into 2020. The survey features the opinions of more than 1,000 cybersecurity officials working at SMBs throughout the United States. According to the survey, 93% of all executives think nation-states outside of the country are intent on attacking security digitally or waging “an invasion fought in cyberspace using busi...
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AMERICAN SMBS FEAR CYBER-ATTACKS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES

Almost all small and medium-sized businesses in America have executives who are living in fear of a cyber-attack from foreign adversaries, according to new research published today. The Q4 Cyberthreat Index for Business Survey by Zix-AppRiver found that 93% of SMB executives believe that as foreign adversaries attempt to breach national security or wage cyber-war, they will use small businesses such as their own as entry points. Two-thirds expect this threat to be more severe in 2020, when the n...
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MALICIOUS EMAIL LEVEL HITS A 5-YEAR HIGH

“However, the attachment was far from innocent. It contained a relatively simple Trojan downloader, that having infected the target machine, would then draw down further payloads to the compromised machine,” explained Fred Touchette, AppRiver’s senior security analyst, in an emailed statement. “In most of these cases Zeus activity was noticed after the initial infection.”
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UK SPAM CAMPAIGN WARNS VICTIMS THEY MAY HAVE CANCER

The email further instructs the recipients to print out the attached results and take them to their family doctor, but of course the results are actually a malicious zip file. Inside the archive is a file with a double extension made to look like a PDF file, but in actuality it’s an executable with a PDF icon, according to an analysis emailed to Infosecurity from AppRiver....
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A POD OF 'CRYPTO-CLONE' RANSOMWARE SPAWNS IN 2014

AppRiver uncovered the trend in its Q1 Global Security Report, which bears out a prediction the firm made at the end of last year that there would be myriad copycat ransomware campaigns using cryptography as a means to hijack victims’ data
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