As the end of year is rapidly approaching, it’s important to reflect back on some of the top learnings for the year. In this special holiday edition of The Discarded podcast, Selena and Crista are joined by Mindy Semling, Podcast Producer at Proofpoint, to answer questions on their favorite things from threat research over the past year — from blogs to malware to holiday songs, we cover it all. Join us as we discuss:

• Celebrating the year
• The 12 favorites
• A thank you to our guests

Resources mentioned:

• https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/exploiting-covid-19-how-threat-actors-hijacked-pandemic
• https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/broken-dreams-and-piggy-banks-pig-butchering-crypto-fraud-growing-online
• https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/bumblebee-is-still-transforming
• https://medium.com/mitre-attack/intelligence-failures-of-lincolns-top-spies-what-cti-analysts-can-learn-from-the-civil-war-35be8d12884
• For more research, check out the Proofpoint Threat Insight blog: https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight

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