When a Fake Ticket Site Is the First Sign of a Real-World Threat
Weeks before a stadium fills or a parade route closes to traffic, a different kind of activity is often already underway: someone registers a domain that looks almost like the official event site, a scam vendor lists a “sold out” hotel room that doesn’t exist, and a name that matches a VIP’s travel schedule surfaces in a chat channel nobody official is watching. None of that looks like a security emergency. But taken together, these small digital traces are frequently the earliest form of warning that a major event’s security team will ever get — long before anyone reaches a checkpoint.