FIFA World Cup 2026 Scams Are Already Live: Fake Sites, Banking Malware, and Stolen Logins

Security researchers and the FBI are warning that a wave of FIFA-themed fraud is already hitting World Cup 2026 fans, days before the June 11 kickoff. Recent reports describe thousands of lookalike FIFA domains, banking malware hidden inside pirate streaming apps, and at least one operation that...

Checking in on the state of cybersecurity and the Olympics

With the 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony only two weeks away now, there is one thing thats an absolute guarantee of one thing happening during the traditionally unpredictable games: Cyber attacks. Every time there is a new Olympic Games, theres a renewed discussion about how threat actors,...

Trend Micro Defends FIFA World Cup from Cyber Threats

Trend Micro collaborates with INTERPOL to defend FIFA World Cup by preventing attacks & mitigating risks to fight against the rising threat of cybercrime...

16,000+ Scam Domains Aimed at FIFA World Cup Fans in Qatar

By Habiba Rashid From phishing attacks to selling fake tickets, scammers have set up thousands of domains to trick FIFA World Cup 2022 fans in Qatar. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 16,000+ Scam Domains Aimed at FIFA World Cup Fans in Qatar...

Spam and phishing in Q3 2021

Quarterly highlights Scamming championship: sports-related fraud This summer and early fall saw some major international sporting events. The delayed Euro 2020 soccer tournament was held in June and July, followed by the equally delayed Tokyo Olympics in August. Q3 2021 also featured several F1...

ThreatList: Phishing Attacks Doubled in 2018

Phishing attempts more than doubled in 2018, as bad actors sought to trick victims into handing over their credentials. They used both old tricks – such as scams tied to current events – as well as other stealthy, fresher tactics. Researchers with Kaspersky Lab said in a Tuesday report that durin...

Spam and phishing in 2018

Numbers of the year The share of spam in mail traffic was 52.48%, which is 4.15 p.p. less than in 2017. The biggest source of spam this year was China 11.69%. 74.15% of spam emails were less than 2 KB in size. Malicious spam was detected most commonly with the Win32.CVE-2017-11882 verdict. The...

A WordPress SPAMbot Wants You to Bet on the 2018 FIFA World Cup

Our researchers recently picked up on a spike in SPAM activity directed at sites powered by WordPress, which, naturally, led them to take a closer look. Turns out the attack was launched by a botnet and implemented in the form of comment SPAM - meaningless, generic text generated from a template...

firstonetv.net XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-634483 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| firstonetv.net Open Bug Bounty Program:| View Open Bug Bounty Program Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

FIFA public Wi-Fi guide: which host cities have the most secure networks?

We all know how easy it is for users to connect to open Wi-Fi networks in public places. Well, it is equally straightforward for criminals to position themselves near poorly protected access points – where they can intercept network traffic and compromise user data. A lack of essential traffic...

July 2014 Security Bulletin Release

Many around the globe have been following the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ closely. Regardless of which country you are supporting, many folks have been impressed by the defensive display put on by keeper Tim Howard in a loss against Belgium. It was a great performance highlighting a strong defens...

FIFA World Cup Security Team Accidentally Reveals their Wi-Fi Password

This FIFA World Cup, the security has been really going well and yet no calamitous incident reported so far, other than the security company who is responsible to keep an eye on the event’s security, itself tweeted a photograph of their state-of-the-art monitoring centre that exposed the World Cu...

FIFA World Cup 2014, Big Opportunity for Cybercriminals

With the beginning of FIFA World Cup tournaments in Brazil, Football fever is going viral across the world. Soccer or Football is the most popular sport in the world with billions of fans who don’t even miss a single tournament. Now, this is the most awaited and rejoicing atmosphere for Football...

Malware PDF Spreads Via World Cup Emails

Researchers are reporting on an ongoing targeted malware campaign using a FIFA World Cup 2010 theme, in an attempt to trick end users into executing a malicious PDF file, exploiting a recently patched flaw in Adobe Reader. Read the full article. ZDNet...