Security News > 2021 > July > FBI: Threat actors may be targeting the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics
The Federal Bureau of Investigation warns of threat actors potentially targeting the upcoming Olympic Games, although evidence of attacks planned against the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is yet to be uncovered.
As the FBI explains, attacks coordinated by criminal or nation-state threat actors targeting the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics could involve distributed denial of service attacks, ransomware, social engineering, phishing campaigns, or insider threats.
Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics already used as phishing lures.
In December 2019, Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics staff already issued warnings alerting of phishing campaigns impersonating the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Last year, the US Department of Justice charged six Russian Main Intelligence Directorate intelligence operatives believed to be part of the Russian-backed hacking group known as Sandworm for hacking operations targeting the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
The US security service also shared a list of best practices that would mitigate or even block potential attacks against 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics' officials or IT infrastructure.