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The World Cup Is the Greatest Phishing Engine Ever Built

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Here is something that should keep you up at night, and it has nothing to do with your firewall. Every four years, the single largest social engineering campaign on the planet kicks off. It is not run by a cybercrime gang. It is sanctioned, branded, and globally promoted. The FIFA World Cup is the greatest phishing engine ever built, and most security professionals do not even register it as a threat. The 2022 Qatar World Cup had over 4.6 billion ticket applications for roughly 3.1 million tickets. Billions of people voluntarily submitted full legal names, passport numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, and credit card details to a centralized system. The ticket revenue is trivial compared to what that data becomes once it leaks. And it always leaks. Kaspersky documented over 73,000 malicious attacks during the 2014 Brazil World Cup. The 2018 Russia tournament saw phishing emails increase 400 percent year over year.…

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