Hospitality industry under siege from botnets - computerweekly.com

The hospitality industry, including hotels, airlines and cruise lines, is the biggest target for cyber criminal botnet attacks that abuse credentials and overwhelm online systems, a report reveals. Cyber security defenders face increasing threats from bot-based credential abuse targeting the hospitality industry, a report shows. Bot-based attacks are also being used for advanced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, according to the...

The hospitality industry, including hotels, airlines and cruise lines, is the biggest target for cyber criminal botnet attacks that abuse credentials and overwhelm online systems, a report reveals. Cyber security defenders face increasing threats from bot-based credential abuse targeting the hospitality industry, a report shows. Bot-based attacks are also being used for advanced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, according to the Summer 2018 state of the internet/security: web attack report by Akamai Technologies.

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