Proofpoint, Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
Security Awareness Isn't the Problem. How We Frame It Is.
Proofpoint argues that the framing of security awareness, not the concept itself, is what undermines effectiveness.
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Proofpoint, Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
Sayonara, SocGholish: Operation Endgame Disrupts Major Cybercrime Operation
Proofpoint's threat research team details how Operation Endgame disrupted the SocGholish malware operation.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, June 16th, 2026
Seeing the Full Picture: How to Measure Email Security Effectiveness the Right Way
Proofpoint's Ryan Kalember explains how organizations should properly measure email security effectiveness.
more → Proofpoint, Friday, June 12th, 2026
ANTS Cyberattack: When Government Communication Mirrors the Attacker Playbook
Proofpoint analyzes the ANTS cyberattack where government comms mirrored the attacker playbook.
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Proofpoint, Thursday, June 11th, 2026
The Frontier AI Era Demands Better Email Security Architecture
Proofpoint argues the frontier AI era demands better email security architecture.
more → Proofpoint US, Wednesday, May 27th, 2026
More CVEs, Same Playbook: 2026 Vulnerability Exploitation in the Wild
Proofpoint reports attackers are rapidly weaponizing new CVEs using established techniques rather than developing fundamentally new exploit methods.
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Proofpoint US, Wednesday, May 27th, 2026
The Future of Exploit Defense Starts at the First Mile
AI-accelerated exploit development is outpacing traditional defenses, requiring organizations to shift to real-world exploit intelligence and first-mile protection.
more → Proofpoint US, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Device Code Phishing is an Evolution in Identity Takeover
Device code phishing attacks are rapidly escalating as criminals leverage new tools and techniques to bypass MFA and compromise enterprise accounts.
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Proofpoint US, Monday, May 11th, 2026
5 Ways to Maximize Email Protection with Proofpoint
Proofpoint outlines five critical capabilities for SOC teams to maximize email security and achieve measurable protection outcomes.
more → Proofpoint, Monday, March 30th, 2026
Security Brief: Tax Scams Aim To Steal Funds From Taxpayers
Threat actors love to take advantage of tax season. It's peak social engineering time: combine monetary concerns with often stressful responsibilities, sprinkle in the expectation of emails about taxes from multiple organizations and you've got a recipe for cybercrime.
more → Proofpoint, March 27,2026
Why Strong DMARC Policies Are Critical In The Age Of AI Driven Impersonation
Artificial intelligence has dramatically changed the economics of cybercrime. What once required time, research, and human effort can now be automated, scaled, and optimized by generative AI (GenAI).
more → Proofpoint, March 27,2026
Unlock Brand Trust With BIMI And Proofpoint Email Fraud Defense
Email is one of the most important channels for customer engagement. It's also the most abused, with more than 90% of successful cyberattacks starting with a phishing email.
more → Proofpoint, March 24,2026
Proofpoint Nuclei Discovery And Archive Suite Is Now Available - A New Era For Digital Communications Governance
We're excited to announce the general availability of Proofpoint Nuclei Discovery and Archive Suite (Nuclei Suite). Nuclei Suite is an AI-first solution for digital communications governance and archiving. It's purpose-built for modern small and midsize organizations.
more → Proofpoint, March 23,2026
Unlock Safe AI Adoption With Visibility And Control-No Matter Where Your Data Resides
As companies speed up AI adoption, one problem stands out: data exposure risk. The challenge isn't just finding sensitive information-it's controlling who and what can access it.
more → Proofpoint, March 23,2026
Proofpoint's Data Risk Map Turns Visibility Into Protection
You can't secure enterprise data at scale without clear visibility. And today, sensitive data is continuously created, shared, and moved across collaboration platforms, cloud storage, endpoints, and on-premises systems.
more → Proofpoint, March 23,2026
Proofpoint Invests In FedRAMP High To Advance Human-Centric Security For Federal Agencies
Proofpoint is expanding its investment in FedRAMP High and Impact Level 4 (IL4) to further support U.S. Federal agencies and defense industrial base (DIB) organizations operating in the most critical environments.
more → Proofpoint, March 23,2026
From Actions To Intent: Insider Threat Detection For The AI Era
Insider threats are one of the most complex challenges in cybersecurity. Unlike external attacks, they involve people in positions of trust: employees, contractors, or business partners. This makes them hard to predict and detect.
more → Proofpoint, March 23,2026
A New Chapter For Email Protection: Unifying SEG And API Security
Proofpoint is bringing together its two market-leading email security approaches-secure email gateway (SEG) and API-based protection-into a single, integrated architecture.
more → Proofpoint, March 17,2026
Cursorjack: Weaponizing Deeplinks To Exploit Cursor IIDE
This post reflects Proofpoint Threat Research observations in a controlled test environment as of January 19, 2026. Proofpoint has no commercial, customer, partner, or vendor relationship with Cursor (published by Anysphere, Inc.).
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
Intent By Design: Security For Autonomous AI
AI is now embedded in how work gets done. Copilots assist employees in real time. Autonomous agents retrieve data, generate content, write code, and execute workflows across enterprise systems. AI capabilities are integrated directly into collaboration platforms, developer tools, and core business applications.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
Cursorjack: Weaponizing Deeplinks To Exploit Cursor IDE
Cursor implements deeplinks for Model Context Protocol (MCP) to provide a mechanism for installation of MCP servers in Cursor IDE.
more → Proofpoint, Friday, March 6th, 2026
Proofpoint Data Security Innovations
Data security is becoming more complex. Organizations are dealing with rapid AI adoption, massive data sprawl, persistent data loss and increasing insider threats.
more → Proofpoint, Thursday, March 5th, 2026
Securing Ambient AI In Healthcare: Governance Is The New Front Line
Ambient AI is no longer experimental. It's live. From AI-powered clinical documentation assistants to remote monitoring systems and intelligent patient engagement agents, healthcare organizations are embedding AI directly into care delivery. The promise is compelling: less administrative burden, faster insights, and more time with patients.
more → Proofpoint, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
Disruption targets Tycoon 2FA, popular AiTM PhaaS
Tycoon 2FA operates as an AitM phishing kit. Its primary function is to harvest usernames, passwords, and Microsoft 365 and Gmail session cookies. Attackers use these cookies to circumvent multifactor authentication (MFA) access controls during subsequent authentication. That allows them to achieve full account takeover (ATO) and gain unauthorized access to a user's accounts, systems and cloud services-even those that have MFA as an additional security measure.
more → Proofpoint, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
From Initial Access To Post-Compromise Abuse: What Our Latest ATO Analysis Reveals
In today's agentic workspace, user credentials have become attackers' highest-value targets. Organizations rely on cloud platforms, collaboration tools, browsers, and third-party applications to get work done. When threat actors compromise an account, they can use it to abuse trust, automate malicious activities, and expand attacks across all these channels and more.
more → Proofpoint, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
(Don't) TrustConnect: It's a RAT in an RMM hat
RMM tools continue to be many attackers' top choice for initial access. Such enterprise remote support software like SimpleHelp, SuperOps, Datto, N-able and others are frequently delivered via email campaigns by cybercrime actors or used as follow-on payloads once an actor achieves initial access.
more → Proofpoint, Monday, February 16th, 2026
Not All AI Is Created Equal: Why Context And Layers Matter In Email Security
Artificial intelligence is everywhere in cybersecurity marketing today. Every vendor claims to be 'AI-powered,' 'AI-first,' or 'AI-native.' But as organizations increasingly rely on AI to protect their people and data, one uncomfortable truth is becoming clear: not all AI is created equal-and in email security, that difference matters more than ever.
more → Proofpoint, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
How A Mid-Market Distributor Broke Free From Cisco IronPort - Without A Risky Email Security Cutover
Email security failures rarely show up as a single dramatic breach. More often, they surface as death by a thousand cuts: phishing emails slipping through, account takeovers that take days to clean up, business tools getting blocked 'just in case,' and a security team stretched to the breaking point.
more → Proofpoint, Friday, February 6th, 2026
Proofpoint DSPM Vs. Varonis For Microsoft 365 And Copilot: Better Accuracy, Lower Cost, Faster Time To Value
As organizations adopt Microsoft Copilot and other generative AI (GenAI) tools, data is spreading faster than ever. Using GenAI, sensitive data can be rapidly accessed, summarized, transformed, and shared.
more → Proofpoint, Friday, January 9th, 2026
Cybersecurity Stop Of The Month: How Attackers Use Authentication Links To Hide Malicious Intent
The Cybersecurity Stop of the Month blog series explores the ever-evolving tactics of today's cybercriminals and how Proofpoint helps organizations better fortify their defenses to protect people against today's emerging threats.  
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
Insiders, AI, And Data Sprawl Converge: Essential Insights From The 2025 Data Security Landscape Report
Data security is at a critical inflection point. Organizations today are struggling with explosive data growth, sprawling IT environments, persistent insider risks, and the adoption of generative AI (GenAI). What's more, the rapid emergence of AI agents is giving rise to a new, more complex agentic workspace, where both humans and agents interact with sensitive data.
more → Proofpoint, Friday, October 31st, 2025
Resilience Powers Innovation: Building A Reliable Foundation For The Agentic Workspace
As the volume and complexity of digital interactions continue to grow, resilience has become a non-negotiable foundation for innovation. Today, Proofpoint analyzes 1.3 trillion messages annually.
more → Proofpoint, Friday, October 31st, 2025
Navigating CMMC 2.0: How Proofpoint DSPM Accelerates Compliance For Defense Contractors
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a tiered cybersecurity program mandated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Contractors and vendors must adopt CMMC to protect sensitive defense data on their systems.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
Where Email Security Meets Relentless Reliability
In recent weeks, organizations have been reminded that even the world's most trusted cloud platforms can experience disruption. When those moments occur, the true measure of a security provider isn't how they perform on a normal day; it's how they continue protecting customers when the unexpected happens.
more → Proofpoint, Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
Proofpoint Releases Innovative Detections For Threat Hunting: PDF Object Hashing
The PDF format is widely used by threat actors to kickstart malicious activity. In email campaigns, Proofpoint researchers observe PDFs distributed in many ways.
more → Proofpoint, Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
Misdirected Emails: How To Detect And Prevent Them
Sensitive data loss has long been an issue for organizations of all sizes. From phishing and ransomware to advanced threats, there is a long and growing list of ways that data can find itself outside your defenses.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, October 21st, 2025
Beyond Credentials: Weaponizing OAuth Applications For Persistent Cloud Access
Cloud account takeover (ATO) attacks have become a significant concern in recent years, with cybercriminals and state-sponsored actors increasingly adopting malicious OAuth applications as a means to gain persistent access within compromised environments.
more → Proofpoint, Thursday, October 16th, 2025
The Hidden Risk Of Microsoft Direct Send: Why You Need A Secure Email Relay
Microsoft Direct Send is a method in Microsoft 365's Exchange Online service that allows devices, applications, or on-premises systems to send email through Microsoft's Exchange Online servers without using a user mailbox or credentials.
more → Proofpoint, October 3,2025
From Scale To Impact: How Adaptive Learning Pathways Elevate Security Awareness
It has never been more challenging to build and maintain a security awareness program. Not only are security teams expected to reach a global, diverse workforce with limited time, skills, and resources-but they're also supposed to prove that the program makes a measurable impact.
more → Proofpoint, October 1,2025
Proofpoint Previews Strategy For Applying AI Agents To Better Secure Data
Proofpoint, in the weeks and months ahead, is readying a raft of sets of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that promise to both automate tasks and provide more robust data security.
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Proofpoint, Friday, September 26th, 2025
The Insider Threat Matrix: A Holistic Approach To Insider Threats
Industry frameworks play a critical role in cybersecurity. For one, they help security teams assess their controls against a common, industry-proven framework.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Stop Customer-Deployed AI Agents From Losing Data With Proofpoint Secure Agent Gateway
In the agentic workspace, data security is paramount. That's because AI agents face similar risks as humans-from social and prompt engineering attacks to intentional or accidental disclosure of sensitive information. AI agents are only as secure as the data they have access to.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Making Complex Workflows Simple With Proofpoint AI Agents As A Force Multiplier
AI is transforming the workplace into an agentic workspace. AI agents facilitate human work by automating tasks, generating data insights and enabling frictionless collaboration. As this shift accelerates, however, it introduces a plethora of new, potentially disruptive risks that security teams must address.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Proofpoint Data Security Complete: Unified Protection For The Agentic Workspace
Across industries, the digital workspace is fast becoming the agentic workspace, where people and agents collaborate.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Enabling Humans And Agents To Trust Agentic Workspace Collaboration
Just as digital transformation created the digital workspace, AI transformation is ushering in the agentic workspace.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Collaboration And Data Security In Today's Agentic Workspace
AI is transforming the digital workspace and giving rise to the agentic workspace, where collaboration is no longer just between people, but also between people and AI agents. In this environment, every collaboration, whether by a human or an AI agent or assistant, introduces new risks to data.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Proofpoint Targets AI Risks With New Agentic Workspace Security Capabilities
Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint Inc. today announced four major innovations at its annual Protect 2025 conference that are designed to secure the agentic workpsace.
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Proofpoint, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Is Your New Hire Your Next Insider Threat?
When we hire someone in good faith to work for our company, we assume they'll respect our organization, policies, and sensitive business data. But sadly, we don't yet live in this utopia.
more → Proofpoint, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Proofpoint Celebrates 2025 Global Partner Award Winners At Annual Flagship Event
Proofpoint Protect 2025, our flagship annual event, brought together cybersecurity leaders and innovators in Nashville, Tennessee-and it also served as the stage for honoring our valued partners.
more → Proofpoint, September 18,2025
From Reactive To Proactive: Using AI To Classify And Protect Data That's New Or Unique To Your Organization
Organizations are increasingly struggling to protect business-critical information such as intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets.
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