Twenty-seven percent of CISOs at oil and gas companies say that dark web activity has no impact on their company — and this comes at a time when it’s common for threat actors to hold auctions on the dark web to sell access to compromised VPNs at energy firms, according to new research posted May 16 by Searchlight Cyber. While 72% of oil and gas companies are already gathering dark web intelligence to protect their companies from cyberattacks, the Searchlight Cyber researchers say they are still behind many other leading industries, such as financial services at 85%, manufacturing’s 83% and transportation at 81%.

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