Group-IB, a company specializing in cybersecurity, warned fans of the variety about the danger.

Experts have found 140 resources that, under the guise of live broadcasts of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, redirect users to fraudulent and phishing sites.

Attackers posted announcements of illegal broadcasts on hacked pages of universities, charitable foundations and online stores. In total, 289 sites could potentially be involved in the scheme.

The largest is the Kinohoot network - it includes more than a hundred resources. Its owner started registering domains back in 2019 and "participated" in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo - then CERT-GIB specialists found 120 similar resources created to conduct fraudulent "live broadcasts".

The broadcasting scheme itself works as follows: on one of the pages of the hacked resource, the user sees a video player window with an embedded link to a “live broadcast” and symbols of the Winter Olympic Games. By clicking on it, he goes to the live landing page - in addition to the video player, sports news and announcements of upcoming competitions are sometimes posted here.

However, to watch the broadcast, you need to register, enter your phone number and indicate a special "access code", the button for which, depending on the country and device of the visitor, will lead the victim to various fraudulent and phishing resources.

Group-IB experts recommend following the sports competitions of the Olympic Games exclusively on official resources, and be wary of “promotions” and “draws”. And even more so, do not enter bank card data and personal data on suspicious sites.

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