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. Further analysis of the domains used in the campaign showed threat actors' usage of typosquatting and levelsquatting techniques to establish legitimacy for their targets. Most of the DNS traffic was noted by researchers to have originated from Switzerland, Hong Kong, and Canada, and while the campaign was linked to a Russian threat actor based on the leveraged lures, attackers may have only been using Russian brands Yandex and Sberbank to conceal their origins.
Travel and hospitality app lets you book exclusive hotel amenities minus the overnight stay
ResortPass helps travelers get access to hotel amenities without overnight stays, has created new market in hospitality industry. Want to get access to a luxury hotel amenity, such as a cabana-equipped pool deck or fitness center, without having to book a room? There’s a pass for that — a "resort pass.". Founded in 2016, ResortPass is an amenity booking website and application that connects consumers to hotels in selected areas for enhanced staycations or full-fledged vacations. Some have compared the online marketplace to Airbnb, the short-term home rental platform, and ResortPass’s CEO, Michael Wolf, views those comparisons as compliments.