Security News > 2021 > July > Tokyo 2020 Olympics must be extra secure to avoid cyberattacks and ransomware
TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Ray Canzanese, director of threat research at Netskope, about cybersecurity and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, being held July 23-Aug. 8, 2021.
In other words, the Olympics come around and what's going to happen from a ransomware point of view is really just that the Olympics are a major cultural event that attackers will leverage to try to trick you into doing something, giving them access, installing software, some way that ends up infecting you with ransomware.
We're going to see that same exact stuff happen with the Olympics.
Is this app that you just got sent to stream some Olympics game legitimate? Is this news article with some salacious headline about the Olympics, is it real article or is it misinformation clickbait trying to get you to install something malicious? So, that's probably what the average Joe or Jane is going to see during these Olympics is those sorts of baits being used to target pretty much everybody.
The last big Olympics-related cyberattack was Olympics Destroyer, right? It was malware specifically written to try to disrupt the games.
That's what Olympics Destroyer was doing, that's what they were trying to do against the anti-doping agencies, that's what we predict they're going to try again to these games.