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The Energy Industry’s Hidden Risks: Espionage, Sabotage, and Insider Threats

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The Energy Industry’s Hidden Risks: Espionage, Sabotage, and Insider Threats 2025-03-21 at 15:07 By With subject matter expertise and presence across the globe, RMI Global Solutions are recognized by the oil & gas, and broader energy industry on and offshore, as experts in the threats and risks that face the spectrum of this key industry […]

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Fort Knox for Your Data: How Elasticsearch X-Pack Locks Down Your Cluster – Part 2

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Fort Knox for Your Data: How Elasticsearch X-Pack Locks Down Your Cluster – Part 2 2025-03-20 at 18:47 By Karl Biron In Part 1 of Fort Knox for Your Data: How Elasticsearch X-Pack Locks Down Your Cluster, we uncovered the dangers of running Elasticsearch with X-Pack disabled and thus, highlighting the ease with which attackers

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Fort Knox for Your Data: How Elasticsearch X-Pack Locks Down Your Cluster – Part 1

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Fort Knox for Your Data: How Elasticsearch X-Pack Locks Down Your Cluster – Part 1 2025-03-19 at 21:19 By Karl Biron Picture this: an always-awake, never-tired, high-speed librarian that instantly finds the exact information you need from a massive collection of books. This extraordinary librarian is also capable of processing millions of requests simultaneously, understands

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Challenges for Australian Manufacturers: Insights from the 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report

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Challenges for Australian Manufacturers: Insights from the 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report 2025-03-13 at 17:48 By The Trustwave SpiderLabs research 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Manufacturing Sector takes a global view of the cybersecurity issues facing this vertical, but it’s also important to examine how and if different regions are specifically impacted. This article is an excerpt

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How Managed Database Security Enhances Compliance, Privacy, and Threat Defense for the Financial Services Sector

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How Managed Database Security Enhances Compliance, Privacy, and Threat Defense for the Financial Services Sector 2025-03-12 at 20:17 By Proactive Threat Defense for Financial Institutions: Trustwave’s DbProtect actively identifies sensitive data locations and analyzes potential threat vectors, enabling immediate security measures like enhanced access controls and vulnerability prioritization. Advanced Offensive Security Measures: Trustwave’s offensive security

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Is Your Organization’s Cloud Environment as Secure as You Think? Trustwave Can Help

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Is Your Organization’s Cloud Environment as Secure as You Think? Trustwave Can Help 2025-03-11 at 22:04 By Organizations today face a growing volume of data and alerts while dealing with tight budgets and vulnerable legacy systems. Which is why they need the security partners with the right tools that can help them make the correct

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Russian State Actors: Development in Group Attributions

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Russian State Actors: Development in Group Attributions 2025-03-07 at 16:33 By Pawel Knapczyk and Nikita Kazymirskyi This is the final installment of Trustwave SpiderLabs Russia-Ukraine digital battlefield series, which has spanned topics including the differences between Russia and Ukraine cyber actors, how government entities, defense organizations, and human targets were caught in the cyber crossfire,

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A Deep Dive into Strela Stealer and how it Targets European Countries

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A Deep Dive into Strela Stealer and how it Targets European Countries 2025-03-07 at 00:01 By Dawid Nesterowicz Infostealers have dominated the malware landscape due to the ease of threat operations maintenance, and a wide group of potential victims. In this blog, we take a closer look at a unique infostealer designed to precisely target

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Defending Manufacturing: How Cybercriminals Are Targeting the Industry and How to Respond

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Defending Manufacturing: How Cybercriminals Are Targeting the Industry and How to Respond 2025-03-06 at 19:34 By Cyber Threats in Manufacturing: The 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report highlights how cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in manufacturing infrastructure, workers, and digital supply chains, with over 3,500 critical vulnerabilities listed on CISA’s KEV list. Top Manufacturing Cyber Risks: Attackers leverage high-profile exploits

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Why Offensive Security Should Be a Top Priority, Not Just a Check-the-Box Compliance Requirement

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Why Offensive Security Should Be a Top Priority, Not Just a Check-the-Box Compliance Requirement 2025-03-04 at 16:18 By Lisel Newton The following is a guest blog by Lisel Newton, Executive Director, Information Security, Risk & Compliance at Gossamer Bio. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source React to this headline:

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Three Years of Cyber Warfare: How Digital Attacks Have Shaped the Russia-Ukraine War

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Three Years of Cyber Warfare: How Digital Attacks Have Shaped the Russia-Ukraine War 2025-02-21 at 00:01 By As the third anniversary of the start of the Russia-Ukraine war approaches, Trustwave SpiderLabs created a series of blog posts to look back, reflect upon, and explain how this 21st Century war is being fought not just on

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Cyber and Physical Security Considerations for Returning to the Office

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Cyber and Physical Security Considerations for Returning to the Office 2025-02-11 at 16:01 By Kory Daniels When remote work became mandatory in the wake of the 2020 COVID pandemic, organizations had to quickly dispatch staffers to their homes with all the equipment, and services, they would need to do their jobs. This article is an

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Trustwave SpiderLabs: Examining How New Ransomware Groups Emerge

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Trustwave SpiderLabs: Examining How New Ransomware Groups Emerge 2025-02-04 at 22:48 By Two newcomers have made their way onto the ransomware threat group stage, becoming the biggest threat to the energy and utilities sector in 2025. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source React to this headline:

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Inside APT34 (OilRig): Tools, Techniques, and Global Cyber Threats

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Inside APT34 (OilRig): Tools, Techniques, and Global Cyber Threats 2025-01-29 at 20:49 By This blog is the latest in a series that delves into the deep research conducted daily by the Trustwave SpiderLabs team on major threat actor groups currently operating globally. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source React to

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Cracking the Giant: How ODAT Challenges Oracle, the King of Databases

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Cracking the Giant: How ODAT Challenges Oracle, the King of Databases 2025-01-27 at 16:04 By Karl Biron In the past decade, Oracle Database (Oracle DB) has reigned supreme in the competitive arena of database engine popularity ranking as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2. This pervasiveness has led Oracle Database to be trusted by

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The New Face of Ransomware: Key Players and Emerging Tactics of 2024

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The New Face of Ransomware: Key Players and Emerging Tactics of 2024 2025-01-21 at 16:03 By Serhii Melnyk As we step into 2025, the high-impact, financially motivated ransomware landscape continues to evolve, shaped by a combination of law enforcement actions, shifting affiliate dynamics, advancements in defensive approaches, and broader economic and geopolitical influences. This article

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The Database Slayer: Deep Dive and Simulation of the Xbash Malware

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The Database Slayer: Deep Dive and Simulation of the Xbash Malware 2025-01-14 at 18:49 By Karl Biron In the world of malware, common ransomware schemes aim to take the data within databases (considered the “gold” in the vault of any organization) and hold them hostage, promising data recovery upon ransom payment. This article is an

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The State of Magecart: A Persistent Threat to E-Commerce Security

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The State of Magecart: A Persistent Threat to E-Commerce Security 2025-01-09 at 16:04 By Phil Hay, Rodel Mendrez Trustwave SpiderLabs first blogged about Magecart back in 2019; fast forward five years and it is still here going strong. This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source React to this headline:

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HHS Proposes Critical HIPAA Security Rule Updates to Combat Rising Cybersecurity Threats in Healthcare

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HHS Proposes Critical HIPAA Security Rule Updates to Combat Rising Cybersecurity Threats in Healthcare 2025-01-06 at 21:46 By The Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has launched an effort to improve cybersecurity measures for a wide variety of healthcare organizations. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source React to

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Trustwave’s 2025 Cybersecurity Predictions: Zero Trust and AI Regulation

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Trustwave’s 2025 Cybersecurity Predictions: Zero Trust and AI Regulation 2024-12-27 at 16:01 By Darren Van Booven As 2024 comes to a close, we went around the room and asked some of Trustwave’s top executives what cybersecurity issues and technology they saw playing a prominent role in 2025. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog

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