by Anthony Cuthbertson, The Independent — 21 August, 2022
Boxing fans in the UK have been urged to reconsider illegally streaming the Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk rematch in Jeddah this weekend after new findings reveal the huge scale of online fraudsters targeting visitors to sports streaming websites.
Sports fans are being exposed to financial fraud, dangerous scams and explicit content according to new research carried out on behalf of the UK’s content protection organisation FACT.
The research by Opentext Security Solutions, a cyber resilience company, carried out an analysis of 50 of the most popular illegal streaming sites and found every one of them to have links to malicious or misleading content.
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