There are several websites that ‘fake-streams’ offer for the Olympic Games in London. The sites say streams to offer for money. Also, there is a variant for Android, where a download link leads to malware.
The websites that require subscription fees to the stream view. One of the sites offers subscriptions of 29,95 and 49,95 dollar. The user is prompted for with a credit card or via PayPal. According to Maela Angeles, fraud analyst at security company Trend Micro to use the websites ‘Blackhat Search Engine Optimization’ to get high in the Google results. The search results seem to be now filtered; the conscious sites are no longer at the top.
There is also a variant for Android devices, with the site a qr code and the download button shows for an ‘Olympic Games’app. This leads to a server in Android-focused malware serves. The malware sends sms messages to expensive pay services without the user this sense.
A part of the websites ask users for their e-mail address. “In this way, cyber criminals can e-mail addresses to collect, which possible could be used for spamactiviteiten,” said Angeles. Trend Micro has published a list with a few ‘rogue’ streamingsites.
The International Olympic Committee has published a list of all uitzendgerechtigde parties. The probability is high that if a streaming service is not one of these organisations, the offered streams are probably not legal. In almost all of Europe are the rights to the European Broadcasting Union, where the Dutch Public service Broadcaster is part of. In the Netherlands broadcasts the NOS than the Olympic Games.