Booking.com sounds alarm on AI-enabled travel scams

"Over the last year and a half, throughout all industries, there's been anywhere from a 500 to a 900% increase in attacks, in phishing in particular, across the globe,” Wilking told AFP on the sidelines of the Collision technology conference in Toronto.

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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. (Photo by AFP)