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Professional sporting events have been prime targets for violent attacks and terrorism, because of their large audiences.  In recent years, these events have become targets of cyberattacks as adversaries exploit venue operations to disrupt events, abuse payment systems for fraud, breach networks to steal data, and take advantage of how athletes interact with fans.

While game time is pivotal, sports franchise operators and event organizers must also allocate resources to address many other vulner

The Winter Olympics have officially come to a close. There have been heartwarming headlines of athletes overcoming adversity, upsets, dominant performances, and countless clips of the mascot Bing Dwen Dwen throughout the past two weeks.  The headline that cyber professionals are waiting for a yet to arrive.

In the weeks leading up to the opening of the Olympic Games athletes were required to install the My2022 app to track their health. The app is supposed to track Covid-19 and monitor the healt

Activity Summary - Week Ending on 21 January 2022:

• Red Sky Alliance identified 34,423 connections from new IP’s checking in with our Sinkholes
• Microsoft IP hit again
• Analysts identified 4,093 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
• SysJoker Backdoor
• Konni Campaign
• Take Down of VPNLab.net
• Russia shuts down REvil, huh?
• Brookings Blog on Russia
• SilverTerrier sent to the Kennel
• China and the Olympics
• Up-Date on Ukraine Hit

Link to full report: IR-22-021-001_weekly021.pdf

After the Russians were banned from the Olympics for another four years in a unanimous decision from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the immediate reaction from Russia was fury and denial.  So now everyone is waiting to see how Russia will respond.

In 2016, Red Sky Alliance analysts reported on the Russian retaliation when Russia was banned from the Olympics for steroid use.  2016 saw unprecedented Russian physical, cyber and physiological interference into the US presidential election, but