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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.
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.
Olympic Destroyer was unleashed at Seoul in 2018. It could happen again, cybersecurity expert says.
Six men have been named as Russian military hackers and accused of spreading malware, disrupting the Olympics in retaliation for Russia's doping ban, and meddling with elections as well as probes into Novichok poisonings. Targeted South Koreans, athletes, the International Olympic Committee officials, and more, with spear-phishing and malicious mobile apps in the run-up to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
I'd like to thank everybody for joining us today for our webinar, "5G, the Olympics and Next Generation Security Challenges." Today, we are going to be hearing from a couple of experts in the arena: Russ Mohr who is an engineer and Apple Evangelist at MobileIron; and also Jerry Ray, who is a COO at SecureAge - he works in Tokyo quite a bit, so he will have some feet-on-the-ground information for us, which is great. Something to note about our agenda, clearly: The hook here is that we're going to use the Tokyo Summer Games as a jumping off point to discuss what's possible with 5G technology rolling out.
Millions of people are eagerly anticipating this summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo-and so are cyberattackers. "Events like the Olympics serve as an amplifier for cybercrime," said Emily Wilson, vice president of research at Terbium Labs.
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The APT is once again targeting the sports world, Microsoft warns.
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Remember the 'Olympic Destroyer' cyber attack? The group behind it is still alive, kicking and has now been found targeting biological and chemical threat prevention laboratories in Europe and...