Scammers are using legitimate hotel booking details to craft targeted phishing attacks, WIRED reports. Victims are far more likely to fall for a phishing attack if a message contains real information that they wouldn’t expect a scammer to know. According to researchers at Norton, this phishing campaign is targeting customers of at least 350 hotels and vacation rentals across 50 countries.

Scammers are using legitimate hotel booking details to craft targeted phishing attacks, WIRED reports. Victims are far more likely to fall for a phishing attack if a message contains real information that they wouldn’t expect a scammer to know. According to researchers at Norton, this phishing campaign is targeting customers of at least 350 hotels and vacation rentals across 50 countries.

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