Booking.com sounds alarm on AI-enabled travel scams
Toronto, Canada (AFP) June 19, 2024
As travellers rush to book their summer getaways, Booking.com's internet safety boss says watch out for supercharged AI scams. Marnie Wilking, Chief Information Security Officer at the Netherlands-based travel giant, said generative AI had sparked an explosion in online phishing scams, and that the hospitality industry, long spared, had also become a target. "Over the course of the last
As travellers rush to book their summer getaways, Booking.com's internet safety boss says watch out for supercharged AI scams. Marnie Wilking, Chief Information Security Officer at the Netherlands-based travel giant, said generative AI had sparked an explosion in online phishing scams, and that the hospitality industry, long spared, had also become a target. "Over the course of the last