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These attacks are socially engineered to target specific people within financial services organisations who can execute requests on the attacker's behalf.
Proofpoint found that the education sector was the most targeted of both brute-force and sophisticated phishing attempts.
The report analyses more than 160 billion emails sent across 150 countries in both 2017 and 2018 to identify email fraud attack trends.
As these threats continue to grow in volume and sophistication, it is imperative that organisations implement a people-centric security approach.
Proofpoint's 2018 report reveals a surge in social engineering attacks, with phishing incidents up 9% and credential compromises rising 70% since 2017.
Google fined EUR €50 million by France's CNIL for GDPR breaches, marking the first major enforcement under the EU's stringent data privacy law.
Proofpoint researchers have looked ahead at the trends and events likely to shape the threat landscape in the year to come.
Proofpoint unveils TAP's Attack Index, offering security teams a people-centric view to identify and better protect their most targeted users.
Gartner has positioned Proofpoint as a Leader in its 2018 Magic Quadrant for enterprise information archiving, marking its seventh consecutive year.
DanaBot is a Trojan written in the Delphi programming language that includes banking site web injections and stealer functions.
Integrations will keep customer content protected and secure with tools for controlling identity access, governing data, and managing devices.
Individual contributors and lower level management account for nearly two thirds (60%) of highly targeted attacks within an organisation.
Proofpoint debuts CLEAR solution to swiftly analyse and remediate phishing emails, leveraging Wombat Security's expertise to enhance threat response times.
Businesses can be more susceptible to phishing attacks and business email compromises (BEC) than they realise.
Email fraud attacks surged 55% last quarter as criminals focus on targeted strikes, with real estate firms among the hardest hit, reports Proofpoint.
Cyber attackers are increasingly preying on human vulnerabilities and less on technical system flaws to create mayhem.
IT decision makers indicate that 82% of boards are concerned about email fraud but only 40% of organisations have full visibility into them.
Proofpoint says commonly targeted accounts are not necessarily people who are known or actively tracked by the security team.
Australia's healthcare sector is the continent's biggest cybercrime target, according to a July report from the Australian Information Commissioner.
Australian businesses and organisations' widespread use of social media puts them at high risk of being hacked.
