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FuboTV has confirmed that a streaming outage preventing subscribers from watching the World Cup Qatar 2022 semifinal match between France and Morocco was caused by a cyberattack. Subscribers could not contact support to report the problem, as it requires a user to first log in to the FuboTV site, which could no longer be done.
Cashing stolen credit cards: Carding groups sell stolen credit card details to carry out illegal and unauthorized transactions. Selling fake Hayya cards: Due to the importance of Hayya cards during the World Cup, threat actors are selling fake Hayya Cards to unsuspecting fans, who are willing to pay any amount to get one.
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.
World Cup apps from the Qatari government collect more personal information than they need to, according to Germany's data protection agency, which this week warned football fans to only install the two apps "If it is absolutely necessary." Also: consider using a burner phone. The two apps are Ehteraz, a Covid-19 tracker from the Qatari Ministry of Public Health, and Hayya from the government's Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy overseeing the Cup locally, which allows ticket holders entry into the stadiums and access to free metro and bus transportation services.
With mandated spyware downloads to tens of thousands of surveillance cameras equipped with facial-recognition technology, the World Cup in Qatar next month is looking more like a data security and privacy nightmare than a celebration of the beautiful game. "Ehteraz is able to install an encrypted file which claims to hold a unique ID, QR code, infection status, configuration parameters and proximity data of other devices using the app," Tom Lysemose Hansen, CTO and co-founder of app security firm Promon told The Register.
"They come in with guns, bro. They literally pulled up, holy sh*t."
Russia was the target of almost 25 million cyber-attacks during the World Cup, President Vladimir Putin said, though he did not indicate who may have been behind the attacks. read more
Israel claiming it was Hamas Security researchers have unpicked mobile apps and spyware that infected the mobile devices of Israeli military personnel in a targeted campaign which the state has...
Tel Aviv - Israeli military intelligence on Tuesday accused Hamas hackers of creating a World Cup app and two online dating sites to tempt soldiers into downloading spyware onto their phones. read more
Like all major sporting and entertainment events, World Cup fans in Russia will be exposed to phishing, password crackers, stingrays and other cyber-attacks.