Tag: FIFA World Cup

One fifth of purchases at 2018 FIFA World Cup use contactless technology: Visa

Pankaj Maru

Mumbai: Visa, an official payment services partner of FIFA has released an analysis of foreign travellers’ spending during opening days of 2018 FIFA World Cup. The results found that in the 11 Russian host cities of the tournament, approximately one in every five (17 percent) purchases with Visa used contactless payment technology, including smartphones, bracelets and rings. In the stadiums themselves, the share of contactless payments was 54 percent, inclusive of purchases made by fans from Russia and abroad. On average, across the 11 host cities, Visa cardholders spent 3,575…

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Check Point researchers discover cyber criminals exploiting world cup fever with wallchart phishing campaign

Pankaj Maru

Bangalore: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, a global cybersecurity solutions provider, has identified a phishing campaign linked to the start of the FIFA World Cup where cyber-criminals attempt to lure would-be victims into downloading a schedule of fixtures and a result tracker. When opened, the attachment uses a malware variant called ‘DownloaderGuide,’ a known downloader of potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) that is most commonly used as an installer for applications such as toolbars, adware or system optimizers. Check Point researchers have found that in total the campaign includes nine different…

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