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Proofpoint Boosting Data Security with Normalyze Acquisition
Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint, which is eyeing an IPO in the next 18 months, is buying startup Normalyze to improve its data protection capabilities and mitigate the threat humans present in an increasingly ...
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Proofpoint Platform Exploited to Send Millions of Spoofed Phishing Emails
A hacker exploited a misconfiguration in Proofpoint's email protection platform to send millions of spoofed phishing emails from companies like IBM, Nike, and Disney looking to steal money and credit card information ...
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CISO Cite Human Error as Top IT Security Risk
It’s the wetware. It’s always the wetware. But that’s not the only takeaway from this year’s Voice of the CISO report ...
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Human Error and AI Emerge as Key Challenges in Survey of CISOs
Tony Bradley | | bec, Blog, data protection, Phishing, Proofpoint, Ransomware, Security Awareness, Spam, Voice of the CISO
The 2024 Proofpoint “Voice of the CISO” report is a useful barometer for understanding the current cybersecurity landscape, providing valuable insights from 1,600 CISOs globally. This year’s findings reveal a complex picture ...

Tax Season is Upon Us, and So Are the Scammers
It’s still relatively early in the year, but bad actors are already targeting accounting and finance organizations as well as filers in the United States with tax-related scams. Researchers at cybersecurity company ...
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Proofpoint Previews Generative AI Tools to Thwart Social Engineering
Michael Vizard | | business email compromise, cyberattacks, Cybersecurity, generative AI, Proofpoint
Proofpoint is leveraging a BERT LLM originally created by Google to thwart social engineering attacks using generative AI ...
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DTEX Enables a Privacy-First Approach to Security for a Fortune 500 Workforce
Rajan Koo | | case-study, Dtex Systems, Employee Monitoring, Forcepoint, insider risk, Insider Risk Management, Privacy, Proofpoint, Remote Work Security
Insider risk management can be tricky for any company, but for a multi-national organization with a highly distributed workforce, the challenges are exacerbated. The ability to understand employee behavior is key to ...

Threat Actors Circumvent Microsoft Efforts to Block Macros
Microsoft’s announcement that it would block macros in Microsoft Office apps by default didn’t stop threat actors—they have simply resorted to new tricks. “Threat actors across the landscape responded by shifting away ...
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Conti’s Ransomware Toll on the Healthcare Industry
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, Conti, Emotet, Emsisoft, Errol Weiss, FBI, H-ISAC, Health Information Sharing & Analysis Center, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Microsoft, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Proofpoint, Ransomware, Ryuk, sophos, U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, Zloader
Conti -- one of the most ruthless and successful Russian ransomware groups -- publicly declared during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that it would refrain from targeting healthcare providers. But new ...

Malicious Office 365 Apps Are the Ultimate Insiders
BrianKrebs | | bec, business email compromise, Latest Warnings, malicious office apps, Microsoft Office 365, Phishing, Proofpoint, Ryan Kalember, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0
Phishers targeting Microsoft Office 365 users increasingly are turning to specialized links that take users to their organization's own email login page. After a user logs in, the link prompts them to ...