Last weekend’s Champions League final in London (congratulations, Real Madrid!) marked the opening shot to a hot European summer of major sporting events. We now approach the highly anticipated UEFA EURO 2024 football tournament in Germany and the Olympic Games Paris 2024. And as we do, bad actors are warming up on the sidelines as they seek opportunities to strike. The Imperva Threat Research Team recorded a 59% increase in attacks targeting European sports websites in January and another 66% increase in March, as overall security incidents increased from the previous year (indicated by the red trendline in the chart below). But what types of attacks should businesses and their customers prepare for? This blog will cover everything you need to know to stay ahead of the game. The impact goes beyond just sporting websites A broader look at the ecosystem of organizations involved with these much-looked-forward-to events, which includes travel, airlines, entertainment, and betting websites, reveals a similar picture. The following chart visualizes the threat landscape using Imperva’s proprietary Cyber Threat Index (CTI). The CTI provides an easy-to-understand score to track cyber threat levels consistently over time and observe trends. The score is calculated using data gathered from all Imperva sensors globally and is based on several ingredients: network traffic, attack traffic, attack types, and vulnerabilities. The chart shows the increase in risk scores across almost…Read More