Phishing for Gold: Cyber Threats Facing the 2024 Paris Olympics

Written by: Michelle Cantos, Jamie Collier

Executive Summary 

• Mandiant assesses with high confidence that the Paris Olympics faces an elevated risk of cyber threat activity, including cyber espionage, disruptive and destructive operations, financially-motivated activity, hacktivism, and information operations. 


• Olympics-related cyber threats could realistically impact various targets including event organizers and sponsors, ticketing systems, Paris infrastructure, and athletes and spectators traveling to the event. 


• Mandiant assesses with high confidence that Russian threat groups pose the highest risk to the Olympics. While …

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