Five Minute Forecast for the week of February 20th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.

• It’s playtime for attackers as GoDaddy reveals multi-year cyber breach
• Coinbase employees targeted by successful SMS phishing expedition
• Another Russian hacker found guilty in a U.S. courtroom

And senior engineering manager Adam Starr explores the implications of ChatGPT on cybersecurity.

Modern compliance is critical to protecting an organization's people, data and reputation. Compliance can also come with a significant financial burden. Michael McGrath, compliance and digital risk expert here at Proofpoint, joins the show to help us understand the components and drivers of compliance costs and what can be done to control them while staying competitive from an IT, legal and regulatory compliance standpoint.
In this episode, we talk about:

• Why organizations should invest in compliance products and solutions
• Industries that need to be more thoughtful about digital risk
• concerns with the cost of compliance
• How organizations can manage these costs

Resources:

• https://www.proofpoint.com/uk/compliance-hub
• https://www.proofpoint.com/us/products/archiving-and-compliance
• https://go.proofpoint.com/cisovoices.html

Five Minute Forecast for the week of February 13th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.

• U.S. victims are still falling hard for romance scams
• Reddit suffers data breach after successful phishing attack
• Sanctions imposed against TrickBot ring leaders

And threat researcher Bryan Campbell discusses a campaign by TA866, a newly-identified threat actor.

Five Minute Forecast for the week of February 6th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.

• Ubiquiti employee pleads guilty to theft that cost investors billions
• Google Fi users suffer SIM swap attacks after data breach
• And users of a popular people-search service find their own data leaked online

And threat researcher Joe Wise discusses a new spate of attacks using Microsoft OneNote.

Five Minute Forecast for the week of January 30th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.

• International law enforcement takes down Hive ransomware
• U.S. officials issue warning about remote monitoring attacks
• A breach at JD Sports exposes data for 10 million customers

And threat researcher Greg Lesnewich joins us to discuss North Korean state-sponsored threat actor TA444.

Five Minute Forecast for the week of January 23rd. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.

• Microsoft blocks another route used by Excel attackers
• Ransomware profits are falling as victims refuse to pay
• Mailchimp employee falls prey to social engineering

And threat research manager Daniel Blackford joins us to discuss a new campaign using clever salary-related lures. Check out the Threat Insight Twitter: @threatinsight

Five Minute Forecast for the week of January 16th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.

• Europol calls time on a chain of pig butchering call centers
• Norton Password Manager accounts targeted in credential stuffing attack
• LockBit affiliate takes aim at the U.K.’s Royal Mail delivery service

And senior threat researcher Joshua Miller shares up-to-the-minute details on a campaign by advanced persistent threat actor, TA450.

Five Minute Forecast for the week of January 9th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.

• LastPass breach is the gift that keeps on giving—but all its delivering is bad news for users
• Phished credentials unlock Slack’s GitHub code repositories
• LockBit ransomware says sorry for attack on SickKids hospital in Toronto

And senior threat intelligence analyst Crista Giering shares her headlines and highlights from the 2022 threat landscape.

Five Minute Forecast for the week of December 19th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.

• Malware botnet taken down by Google last year back from the dead
  
• Another botnet targets Minecraft servers
  
• And an attacker infiltrates an FBI-run cybersecurity information-sharing program
  

Five Minute Forecast for the week of December 12th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.
Patients moved after ransomware attack at a Paris hospital
Looking for a last-minute gift? How about a stolen email address for $2?
Microsoft says the holidays could deliver a new wave of Russian cyber attacks 


And email threat researcher Timothy Kromphardt shares his highlights from another busy year of cyber threats.