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### On Heightened Alert

The Unit 42 Paris 2024 Threat Report highlights significant cyberthreats to the upcoming 2024 Olympics, including financially motivated fraud, politically driven sabotage by state-sponsored actors and hacktivists and espionage activities. Critical services such as transportation, hospitality, event management and telecommunications could be at risk.

These cyberattacks could damage the event's reputation, disrupt attendee experiences and cause financial losses. The report underscores the need for robust cybersecurity measures to safeguard the event's security and integrity.

### Unit 42 Highlights Cyberthreats

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### Primary Threats

Financially motivated crime is identified as the highest and most sustained threat, with cyber-enabled fraud being a prevalent means to obtain illicit funds from enterprises and individuals​.

### Politically Motivated Sabotage

State-sponsored actors and hacktivists are likely to target the Olympics, with a high potential for disruptive or destructive attacks, such as DDoS attacks or website defacements.

### Espionage Concerns

Espionage remains a concern, particularly state-sponsored threats conducting surveillance on dissidents, activists or persons of interest​.

### Critical Services

Key services at risk include event management, hospitality, payment services, safety and security, sponsorship, technology, media, telecommunications and transport and logistics​.

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