A broad network of 708 fraudulent web domains is being used to sell fake sporting and musical events tickets, primarily to a Russian-speaking audience, according to threat intelligence provider QuoIntelligence.
Two of these domains, ‘ticket-paris24[.]com’ and ‘tickets-paris24[.]com’, host convincing websites that seemingly allow users to purchase tickets for their preferred events during the upcoming Summer Olympic Games and choose accommodation in Paris.
Researchers at threat intelligence provider QuoIntelligence detected the operation, dubbed Ticket Heist, when scanning for specific keywords associated with the Olympics in late 2023.
Convincing Olympics Ticketing Platforms, Overpriced Tickets
In December 2023, a team at QuoIntelligence started investigating potential fraud schemes aimed at luring people interested in buying tickets for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games, which will start on July 26.
The two Olympics ticketing portals they found had a similar user interface (UI) to legitimate sites, despite minor spelling and grammar mistakes the threat intelligence firm said were likely due to direct translation from Russian to English.
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