Tourist rebound after COVID-19 is an obvious target for phishing attacks

Research company Proofpoint, has shown that the threat actor, tracked as TA558, has increased it’s phishing campaigns targeted at hotel and travel companies, to coincide with the rapid increase in foreign travel as the pandemic decreases.

Hackers target hotel and travel companies with fake reservations (bleepingcomputer.com)

Threat actors are always on the look out for those social situations that they can exploit without conscience.

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