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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Proofpoint is leveraging a BERT LLM originally created by Google to thwart social engineering attacks using generative AI ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...