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Protecting Oil and Gas Industry Infrastructure: Strategies for Resilience

SecureWorld News

Conducting regular training sessions on recognizing phishing emails, avoiding suspicious downloads, and following cybersecurity protocols can build a resilient workforce. Leverage data analysis: Data analytics and IoT technologies are revolutionizing the oil and gas sector, enabling better monitoring and threat detection.

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The CISO: Guardian of Data while Navigating Risk Strategic Insights for the Boardroom and Shaping Future Business

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Enforce Compliance and Audit-Readiness Step one in your security journey is to demonstrate regulatory compliance via automated policies and controls—such as encryption, access controls, rights management, and anonymization. Here’s a quick primer. The Right Approach to Strengthen Your Security Posture As CISO, you are the guardian of data.

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Lumma Stealer – Tracking distribution channels

SecureList

txt file contains aBase64-encoded PowerShell script that then downloads and runs theLumma Stealer. txt The script performs the following actions: Downloads the malware. It downloads the win15.zip The encrypted payload To decrypt the payload independently, we wrote a custom Python script that you can see in the screenshot below.

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When Good Tools Go Bad: Dual-Use in Cybersecurity

Security Boulevard

Encryption Technologies: Encryption protects data confidentiality and integrity, but attackers also use it to conceal malware, establish encrypted communication channels, and secure stolen data. However, defenders use the cloud to implement security measures, such as IAM controls and encryption.

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The Most Popular Applications and Cloud Platforms in 2025: A Security-Focused Comparison

Responsible Cyber

Data Protection and Encryption Free Plan: Zoom Free provides end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for meetings, but its not enabled by defaultusers must opt in. Theres no support for managing encryption keys, and recordings are limited to local storage (not cloud), with a 40-minute meeting cap.

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Key Cybersecurity Trends for 2025. My Predictions

Jane Frankland

Ransomware remains a prominent threat, but the methods have evolved. Double extortion ransomware is now a preferred techniquea devastating one-two punch where attackers not only encrypt a companys data but also steal sensitive information. million annually compared to those that don’t.

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Top Cyber Attacker Techniques, August–October 2024

Digital Shadows

It maintains its dominance by posing as a fake browser update, targeting high-ranking websites to appear legitimate and ultimately increasing download success rates. The new tactic involves obfuscating PowerShell , which downloads and executes payloads using living-off-the-land binaries (LOLbins) such as mshta.exe and Dllhost.exe. [i]