Before the trip to Russia for the World Cup, the United Kingdom football team underwent a special briefing by the National Center for Cyber ??Security, NCSC.

According to the Daily Mail, the players were told where to hide personal things at the hotel, banned the use of Internet banking services and generally conduct online activities that could put them under attack. According to rumors, the players wanted to give disposable mobile phones, which after the championship and return to their homeland would have been destroyed, but before that it did not come. However, the players' phones were equipped with specially developed applications to protect them from hacking "Russian hackers". NCSC extended its recommendations to football fans.

They are also advised to take less personal things and do not go online without the need. The unhealthy excitement around the alleged cyber intervention of Russia in the internal affairs of Great Britain intensified in the last few months. According to the head of the British intelligence agency MI-5 Andrew Parker (Andrew Parker), Russia has mastered the tactics of the hybrid war, mixing media manipulation and misinformation in social networks with old and new forms of espionage, cyber attacks by military threat and criminal actions.