"Quote" World Cup 2014 fans are not the only ones with their eye on the ball

 

by Ziv Mador - Director of Security Research at Trustwave - Wednesday, 11 June 2014.

 

Summary/ The World Cup 2014 championship has begun and like most major sports events, employees are browsing websites to check the latest scores, watch streaming live games and chat with their peers about the latest updates. Sports-related websites receive a lot of traffic during large events like these creating a prime opportunity for advertisers to post campaign banners and watch the cash roll in.



However, advertisers are not the only ones cashing in. Unbeknownst to fans, criminals planted malware in an advertisement on the popular sports-focused Brazilian website, lancenet.com.br. If fans use a vulnerable version of Adobe Flash, by simply visiting the site, the ad could plant malware on their machines giving criminals full access to their valuable information. And, this attack goes beyond Brazil. While the World Cup games are going to take place in Brazil, the websites affected by malvertisement campaigns can be in any region. Given the global attention surrounding this event, these kinds of malvertisement campaigns can be very successful anywhere.

 

 

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