2023-12-23 18:00:00
The year 2024 will be rich in international events: European elections, American elections, and especially the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. A golden opportunity for cybercriminals who should take advantage of it to take action.
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The famous publisher of antivirus solutions McAfee warns of major trends in cybercrime in 2024 because next year will see Europeans vote to elect their parliamentarians and Americans go to the polls to choose their next president. These events could be thwarted by the dissemination of numerous fake news, but also deepfakes, these video montages that can divert images of personalities using artificial intelligence. Voters will therefore have to be particularly vigilant in the face of videos attempting to discredit certain politicians and the media will have to carry out filtering work to avoid being fooled. Generally speaking, AI today makes it possible to create audio and photographic scams from scratch.
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In the same vein, beware of false images created by AI supporting scams or dubious marketplaces. These creations could proliferate on social networks and deceive many Internet users, especially the youngest, by using the image of celebrities for example, without their knowledge. Thanks to mobile applications made available to the general public, deepfakes also risk being used as tools of harassment among adolescents. More than ever, it is therefore appropriate for young people not to share photos or videos of themselves, even with close friends. Because these images, if manipulated, could one day turn against them.
Charity fraud is also a sneaky way to extract money from Internet users by inviting them to donate to good causes or well-known associations. To achieve their goals, cybercriminals do not hesitate to send phishing campaigns to fake charitable sites to deceive potential donors. This type of scam is expected to continue to increase in 2024.
Why we will need to be particularly vigilant during the 2024 Olympics
Given the current situation, pirates will want to take advantage of the Olympic Games to lure their future victims. The event should therefore, unsurprisingly, become a breeding ground for scams, via false announcements, concerning the purchase of tickets to attend events or the reservation of hotel nights at discounted prices, linking to malicious pages where the personal (and banking) information of injured Internet users will be collected.
The quishing phenomenon, which appeared this year, is expected to increase in 2024, “thanks” once again to AI. The idea for hackers is to generate QR codes again linking to malicious pages. If they adopt this new technique, it is because a QR code is much more difficult to decipher than a complex and suspicious Internet address. If the Internet user scans the malicious QR code, in the street or on a website, they then find themselves redirected to a page where their personal data can be collected.
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