For many companies, big events such as the FIFA World Cup or the Super Bowl are critical for marketing and revenue. However, cybersecurity experts are increasingly concerned about bad actors who could take advantage of any new IT infrastructure spun up for those events.

Just this month, cybersecurity threat intelligence company BforeAI found that bad actors have created malicious infrastructure in preparation for the FIFA World Cup, which will host matches in North American cities such as Los Angeles, Boston, Houston, Philadelphia, Miami, Toronto, and Mexico City in summer 2026.

In BforeAI’s report, researchers identified domains registered for the World Cup, suggesting that attackers are repurposing old domains for new threat campaigns or registering new ones in advance to avoid detection and improve theft success rates.

For example, BforeAI found a webpage that promotes itself as helping fans find hotels and restaurants with electric vehicle chargers for the World Cup, as well as a partnership promotion that encourages companies to apply to participate.

Learn what to do in the event of an event here.—CN

At the beginning of 2025, David Khuat-Duy pulled off the ultimate never let them know your next move trick. Stepping down from a quarter-century stint as CEO of Ivalua, the spend-management software company he founded in 2000, he ventured off into a new role within the company—not as a strategic advisor as some may expect, but instead as chief AI officer (CAIO).

For Khuat-Duy, the transition into Ivalua’s inaugural CAIO role made perfect sense. As he told IT Brew, the emergence of ChatGPT signaled a disruption similar or even larger than the one following the rise of the internet. While Khuat-Duy had already begun to spend time focusing on AI technology, he said he ultimately felt it was time to make it the center of his attention.

“Because I was CEO and because I know very well the process, the organization, and all the leaders, I was the best person to help the company embrace that technology at its full extent,” Khuat-Duy said. (In January, Ivalua CRO Franck Lheureux succeeded Khuat-Duy as CEO as the latter transitioned into the AI-focused role.)

Read about why this CEO decided to become CAIO.—BM

The best things in life come in pairs: bookends, fuzzy socks, earbuds, and…digital twins?

Organizations across the nation are twinning, and not in the “Who wore it better?” type of way. Instead, they’re doing it digitally: virtual representations of physical objects, people, or processes that allow businesses to replicate or test different variables.

Intuitus Corp founder, president, and CEO David Shaw told IT Brew that the concept of digital twins has been around since the 1960s, when NASA engineers made physical replicas of space crafts as a way to replicate and solve problems. He said digital twins have since evolved from just mirroring their physical correspondent to being a “framework for linking physical and digital worlds” that can make predictions that could inform business decisions.

Shaw is also a co-chair of the aerospace and defense working group at the Digital Twin Consortium, a group dedicated to advancing digital twin education and technology. “You’re pulling together a lot of information that’s coalesced into one unit and that unit then has...all the data that you really need to simulate a real-world activity,” he said. “That real-world activity then keeps pace with that.”

How to keep digital twins secure.—BM

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