Cyber Threat Trends During the Winter Olympics 2026 From Bfore AI

Bfore AI’s PreCrime Labs has some extensive research looking into scams and impersonation attacks leveraging the “Winter Olympics” and looking ahead to “Summer Olympics”. There is 6 months of data, preemptively warning users of what to expect with activities associated with LA28 Olympics. 

PreCrime Labs, the research division of BforeAI, observed a total of 1623 suspicious domains, majority used keywords highly relevant to the event, (e.g., “olympic”, “olympics”, “la28”, “milanocortina”). Alongside, several hundred domains, from legacy .com/.org to newer TLDs (“.shop”, “.store”, “.ai”, “.world”, “.app”, “.cloud”, “.top”, “.xyz”, “.games”, “.global”) were seen.

You can look at the research here: https://bfore.ai/report/cyber-threat-trends-winter-olympics-2026/

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