SiliconAngle reports that organizations in the hospitality industry have been subjected to increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks that involved Domain Name System protocol exploitation to evade detection. Attacks that commenced in June employed a two-pronged approach, with threat actors commencing with intrusions with the delivery of phishing lures to hotel staff to facilitate data exfiltration activities before proceeding with compromising hotel customers’ online accounts and stealing their credit card information through malware-laced emails, a report from Akamai Technologies revealed.

Source: SC Magazine