The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 is the most awaited sports event of 2022 for football and cybercriminals found an opportunity to exploit it.
Kaspersky experts have analyzed World Cup-related phishing websites from around the globe designed to steal users’ identifying and banking data. Kaspersky researchers have found fake pages offering everything from tickets or event merch, to match streaming services, plus numerous giveaways and NFT scams exploiting the World Cup.
Ticketing scams
As with all major global sports events, fake tickets are the spread bait most used to lure victims and this World Cup is no exception. Qatar 2022 is only offering digital tickets, increasing the risk of running into malicious resources. Kaspersky discovered numerous phishing pages offering to buy tickets for FIFA matches. Users will lose personal data, banking details, and money should they fall for this.
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Gifts
No big public event is complete without fraudsters imitating extremely generous giveaways. Kaspersky experts also found phishing pages offering to win two tickets to the World Cup. This is quite popular where usually each user becomes a “lucky” winner; with the chosen ones only needing to pay a delivery fee.
Merchandise
Another way to steal users’ data is via fake FIFA-related merchandise stores. While the offer of a T-shirt of your favorite…
