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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 ...
Thoma Bravo Lacks Options with Proofpoint
Richard Stiennon | | Forcepoint, Forescout, Microsoft, Proofpoint, Security Yearbook 2020, Thoma Bravo
The announcement that Thoma Bravo is acquiring publicly traded Proofpoint for $12.3 billion is the latest and largest private equity deal in the cybersecurity industry. As a rule, I am not a ...
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U.K. Arrest in ‘SMS Bandits’ Phishing Service
BrianKrebs | | National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, otp agency, Proofpoint, Sasha Angus, Scylla Intel, smishing, SMS phishing, SMSBandits
Authorities in the United Kingdom have arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly operating an online service for sending high-volume phishing campaigns via mobile text messages. The service, marketed in the underground under ...
Medical Debt Collection Firm R1 RCM Hit in Ransomware Attack
BrianKrebs | | Accretive Health, Defray ransomware, Proofpoint, R1 RCM ransomware, Ransomware, Trend Micro
R1 RCM Inc. [NASDAQ:RCM], one of the nation's largest medical debt collection companies, has been hit in a ransomware attack. ...
Report: Emotet Botnet Is Back, With a Vengeance
A report published this week by Proofpoint shines some light on how big an impact a single botnet can have on the cybersecurity landscape. Last May, the Emotet bot went offline for ...
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