AI Agent Phishing: Proofpoint’s New Defense

Email security has always been a cat-and-mouse game. Viruses are invented, and antivirus software is invented to catalog known viruses and detect their presence in email attachments and URLs. As viruses morphed into more sophisticated forms of malware, cybersecurity tools adapted to be able to scan for and detect these new threats. Phishing became the next arena, giving birth to new tools as well as a whole new category of defense known as security awareness training. Now, the bad guys are attacking AI…