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Hotels are shaping up to be a prime hunting ground for cyber criminals. While government, healthcare and financial organisations remain among the most preferred prey of cybercriminals, the hospitality sector is emerging as a growing target for e-crime and, in a more unsettling turn, nation-state adversary groups as well.
International hotel chains, in particular, offer ripe picking for financial crimes, from stealing identities to pilfering credit card numbers via point-of-sale (POS) transactions. State-affiliated adversaries have also developed a deep interest in the hospitality sector, whether for tracking persons of interest while they are traveling, or to enable access to these potential victims when they use electronic devices outside the confines of protected networks. This is according to CrowdStrike’s recent Global Threat Report.
Hotels are an attractive target for cyber criminals
Hotels present a vast array of people that represent potential targets. These include business travellers and large conferences…
