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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 Fortune 500 companies (e.g. Netflix, LinkedIn, eBay, etc.) to house, process, and safeguard their critical data.

Ransomware has a long history, first established in 1989 with the introduction of the AIDS Trojan, of use by criminals to force organizations and regular people to hand over money. Trustwave SpiderLabs follows the continuously changing history of ransomware and those behind the malware in Energy and Utilities Sector Deep Dive: Ransomware Threat Groups, a supplementary report to the team’s just released 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Energy and Utilities Sector.

Increasing frequency, new threat groups emerging, the rise of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) attack model, and third-party attacks are just a few of the dangerous trends Trustwave SpiderLabs details in Energy and Utilities Sector Deep Dive: Ransomware Trends. This report supplements the just released 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Energy and Utilities Sector. This broader and more comprehensive report analyzes the energy and utilities sector’s major threats and trends.

The energy sector is a cornerstone of national security, ensuring the delivery of critical infrastructure services and supporting transportation systems. Recognizing the importance of protecting this vital industry, Trustwave SpiderLabs has released the comprehensive 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Energy and Utilities Sector.

The energy sector plays a crucial role in national security by ensuring the delivery of essential infrastructure services and supporting transportation systems. Acknowledging the need to safeguard this vital industry, Trustwave SpiderLabs has published the highly detailed 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Energy and Utilities Sector. The primary report is joined by two specialized supporting pieces of research focusing on these critical areas of concern.

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. While 2024 also saw the continued use of ransomware for non-financial gain purposes, such as drawing attention away from other activities – financial motives remained at the forefront of the overall ransomware landscape.

Trustwave SpiderLabs is continuing its multi-year research effort delving into the unique cybersecurity challenges that face different vertical sectors with a new report launching on January 22. This effort analyzes the energy and utilities sector, industries which are increasingly targeted due to their critical role in supporting national and global infrastructures. Ransomware takes center stage in these reports, with Trustwave SpiderLabs reporting an 80% year-over-year surge in such attacks.

The increasing adoption of generative artificial intelligence platforms by threat actors, cyber defenders, and the average organization will present enterprises with an unprecedented number of cybersecurity issues in the coming years, according to a new Gartner report and information from Trustwave subject matter experts.

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. Typically, most of these schemes follow an expected script: encrypting files, requesting payment, and then delivering a decryption key. This model, while damaging, generally allows victims to recover if they pay the ransom.

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is poised to reshape the European financial landscape, demanding a robust defense against cyber threats and operational disruptions and Trustwave is putting the pedal to the metal to prepare clients with our DORA Readiness Accelerator service. The Trustwave DORA Readiness Accelerator, which joins Trustwave’s CMMC readiness and Microsoft Security accelerators, provides a structured approach to achieving compliance and bolstering operational resilience.