The Cyber War Nobody’s Talking About at the FIFA World Cup

The pipelines keep running. The rigs keep drilling. But somewhere in the background, threat actors are quietly doing their own kind of work stealing credentials, probing control systems, and waiting for the right moment to pull the trigger on a ransomware payload. The 2026 threat intelligence picture for the oil and gas sector is not pretty, and if you’re involved in energy security, it deserves your full attention.