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Cybercriminals are cashing in on domain fraud for almost every possible reason – to impersonate businesses, events, and even trusted leaders and celebrities.

Email remains the preferred attack vector for cybercriminal activity, from low-level cybercriminals to nation states.

In Q1 2019, 61% of malicious payloads were driven by Emotet, according to Proofpoint's latest report, highlighting a major cyber threat shift.

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.

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.

Only three of the 105 domains were legitimate (although unofficial) domains, which are being used for Olympic medal tracking purposes.

Proofpoint will hand over US$225 million (AU$284 million) as part of a deal that will help the company continue its journey into phishing prevention.