Super Bowl LIX Could Be a Magnet for Cyberattacks

The report warns that the Super Bowl is a high-value target for cyberattacks—highlighting risks such as ransomware, phishing, malware, and attacks against ticketing, livestreaming, IoT, payment systems, and non-human identities/APIs—and urges coordinated defensive efforts by the NFL, vendors, and federal/local agencies. It outlines preparations by Cisco and partners (firewalls, Umbrella, XDR, Talos intelligence, Splunk), operational measures like social-media monitoring, drones, biometrics, and exercises to ensure resilience, and calls attention to the rising threat from poorly monitored automated accounts and service tokens that expand the event attack surface.