The GHOST STADIUM Score: Billions At Stake At The World’s Largest Football Tournament

With the 2026 FIFA World Cup just weeks away, Group-IB researchers have uncovered six distinct fraud schemes, four independent threat actors, and over 4,300 fraudulent domains impersonating FIFA's official web presence — including a sophisticated phishing operation run by the Chinese-speaking threat actor GHOST STADIUM, whose campaign could cause losses reaching billions of dollars.