Security News > 2022 > November > World Cup phishing emails spike in Middle Eastern countries

Phishing attempts targeting victims in the Middle East increased 100 percent last month in the lead up to the World Cup in Qatar, according to security shop Trellix.

Trellix's phishing net also caught emails spoofing Snoonu, the official food delivery partner of the World Cup, that offered fake free match tickets and contained a malicious xlsm attachment.

Trellix also highlighted World Cup-themed phishing pages that look like the legitimate FIFA pages they spoof, and warned that miscreants are using "Multiple phishing kits where the post URL is either obfuscated, Base64 encoded or present in the ajax request instead of form action tags."

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Of course, the nearly 3 million people who bought tickets to attend a match in Qatar have a whole other set of cybersecurity threats to worry about once they are in the country - in addition to a litany or moral and ethical concerns related to attending the World Cup in a country with a horrible human rights' record that built its stadiums using migrant workers whose treatment has been described as "Modern slavery."

Two World Cup apps have come under increased scrutiny from security researchers and various countries' data protection agencies, which have labeled the apps spyware and encouraged visits to use burner phones.

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