As travellers rush to book their summer getaways, Booking.com’s internet safety boss says watch out for supercharged AI scams.
Marnie Wilking, Chief Information Security Officer at the Netherlands-based travel giant, said generative AI had sparked an explosion in online phishing scams, and that the hospitality industry, long spared, had also become a target.
“Over the course of the last year and a half, throughout all industries, there’s been anywhere from a 500 to a 900% increase in attacks, in phishing in particular, across the globe,” Wilking told AFP on the sidelines of the Collision technology conference in Toronto.
Phishing scams are a type of cyber attack where criminals attempt to trick victims into revealing sensitive…