Podcasts

Today’s episode is Part Two of what to expect in cybersecurity in 2024, and our guests are Randy Pargman and Rich Gonzalez. Randy sheds light on the crucial role of the Detections Team and emphasizes the constant innovation of malware authors, and the team’s mission to outsmart them.

Today’s episode focuses on insights from Daniel Blackford and Alexis Dorais-Joncas, both Senior Managers of Threat Research at Proofpoint. This is the first in our two-part series looking at what’s on the horizon for 2024.

In this special holiday edition of Discarded, the tables are turned with hosts, Selena and Crista, becoming the answer-ers, our returning moderator, Mindy Semling, as the question asker, and our wonderful audience is transformed into cyber elves. 

Returning guest is Greg Lesnewich, Senior Threat Researcher at Proofpoint, sheds light on the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) employed by TA422. The conversation touches on the significance of the high volumes observed starting in late summer, the exploitation of vulnerabilities for NTLM credential harvesting, and the brief usage of the WinRAR vulnerability. Plus, Greg sings!

Take a deep dive with us into the influential MITRE ATT&CK Framework, a comprehensive knowledge base that catalogs real-world threat actor behaviors derived from threat intelligence.

Joshua Miller, Senior Threat Researcher on the APT team at Proofpoint discusses Palestinian-aligned threat group TA402. Joshua paints a vivid picture of TA402's usual targets, strategies, and tactics, highlighting its geofencing techniques and crafty use of compromised government agency accounts.

How can you tell when a website (yes, a website) is compromised? Dusty Miller, a threat detection analyst at Proofpoint, dicusses four key groups that exploit trust in popular websites and how to avoid becoming the next victim.

Oh the days when spam was the only concern for email security! Our guest today is Chris Wakelin, a Senior Threat Researcher at Proofpoint and email security pioneer. He recounts the era when email attachments were plain text and malicious URLs had yet to become prevalent.

Live from New York City, it’s your Discarded podcast team at Protect 2023! Joining host Selena Larson, is our special guest, John Hultquist, Chief Analyst at Mandiant, now part of Google Cloud.

Brazil's online population is mushrooming, and where people are, attackers follow. Today’s guest, Jared Peck (Senior Threat Researcher at Proofpoint), dives deeper into his knowledge of this region and breaks down some of its unique characteristics.