State of Cybercrime

Proofpoint Spoofing

State of Cybercrime

Show Notes

Matt Radolec and David Gibson discuss how an unknown attacker recently exploited a vulnerability in Proofpoint’s email routing system, allowing them to bypass security measures and send millions of spoofed emails on behalf of major companies.

The co-hosts also cover:

+ The North Korean threat actor hired using AI

+ The biggest ransomware payment ever made

+ How X is training its Grok AI LLM with your posts

+ The EU’s groundbreaking AI act

+ How anyone can access deleted and private repositories on GitHub

+ Updates on AMD's silicon-level "SinkClose" processor flaw

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