Network Abuses Leveraging High-Profile Events: Suspicious Domain Registrations and Other Scams
ID: dcd90bc9-4975-5e54-ab54-0d72231ed2b2
STIX ID: report--dcd90bc9-4975-5e54-ab54-0d72231ed2b2
Feed Name: Palo Alto Networks Unit 42
Date Published: 2024-12-06
Date Updated: 2026-04-28
Author: Shu Wang, Zhanhao Chen, Chi-Wei Liu, Shunyao Yang, Zhenyu Mao, Shireen Hsu, Fan Fei, Daiping Liu, Xing Wang and Jiaqi Wu
## Executive Summary This Unit 42 report analyzes opportunistic domain-registration and network-abuse campaigns tied to the 2024 Paris Olympics, documenting spikes in newly registered domains (NRDs), elevated suspicious-domain rates (up to 16–20% during event peaks), DNS/URL traffic anomalies, scam campaigns (fake ticketing, data giveaways, cryptocurrency fraud), malicious gambling sites, and evidence of shared infrastructure across multiple Olympic events, plus a catalog of IOC-themed suspicious domains to use as IOCs.
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