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Texas-based Omni Hotels & Resorts has been responding to a cyberattack that started last Friday, which resulted in the unavailability of many of its IT systems. According to people staying at some of the 50 properties the company operates across N… Continue reading Omni Hotels suffer prolonged IT outage due to cyberattack
Scammers on Airbnb are faking technical issues and citing higher fees to get users to a spoofed Tripadvisor website and steal their money. The Airbnb scam Malwarebytes researchers came across the Airbnb scam when trying to book an apartment through the… Continue reading Airbnb scammers pose as hosts, redirect users to fake Tripadvisor site
The Qakbot botnet has been disrupted this summer, but cybercriminals are not ready to give up on the malware: Microsoft’s threat analysts have spotted a new phishing campaign attempting to deliver it to targets in the hospitality industry. Qakbot… Continue reading Qakbot returns in fresh assault on hospitality sector
Scammers are hijacking hotels’ Booking.com accounts and using them as part of a hotel booking scam aimed at tricking guests into sharing their payment card information. “Customers of multiple properties received email or in-app messages fro… Continue reading Booking.com customers targeted in hotel booking scam
Singapore-based luxury resort and casino Marina Bay Sands has suffered a data breach that exposed data of 665,000 non-casino rewards program members. The Marina Bay Sands data breach “Marina Bay Sands became aware of a data security incident on 2… Continue reading Marina Bay Sands breach exposed data of 665,000 customers
A recently patched vulnerability (CVE-2023-21932) in Oracle Opera, a property management system widely used in large hotel and resort chains, is more critical than Oracle says it is and could be easily exploited by unauthenticated remote attackers to a… Continue reading Easily exploitable flaw in Oracle Opera could spell trouble for hotel chains (CVE-2023-21932)
With Covid-19-related travel restrictions having been dropped by most countries, pleasure-seeking travelers are booking plane tickets, accomodations and tours with a vengeance. Phishers, scammers and malware peddlers are ready to take advantage of the … Continue reading Summer holiday season fuels upswing of travel-themed spam
The health care industry has been on the front lines a lot lately. Along with helping control the effects of COVID-19, it has been a prime target for ransomware. In a 2021 survey conducted of 597 health delivery organizations (HDOs), 42% had faced two ransomware attacks in the past couple of years. Over a third […]
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Zscaler released a report on the state of corporate attack surfaces. Based on data sourced between February 2020 and April 2021, the report provides a first-ever look at the impact of attack surface exposure during the pandemic. As businesses began off… Continue reading Corporate attack surfaces growing concurrently with a dispersed workforce
A practical cybersecurity guide from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can help hotel owners reduce the risks to a highly vulnerable and attractive target for hackers: the hotel property management system (PMS), which stores gue… Continue reading Cybersecurity guide for the hospitality industry