When Booking.com becomes Booking.Scam
4 min readApr 1, 2024
When you need help online, a scammer will come to the rescue
Scammers to the rescue
Over the past few months, there have been an increasing number of attacks targeting the hospitality industry. There have been multiple attacks convincingly impersonating Booking.com. Attackers do this to gain Booking.com credentials, which can contain significant amounts of valuable information.
Elad Damari is an email security expert at Perception Point who has conducted extensive research in this area. Last week, I tweeted about his research, which detailed the strategies employed in these attacks. He notes that perhaps the hotels’ hospitality makes them such hospitable targets for attackers.
Within minutes of my tweet, there were multiple responses from accounts that themselves impersonated Booking.com.
