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Hotels across the globe have been subject to massive data breaches and widespread loyalty fraud over recent years. Competitive bookings have become a prime target for cybercriminals who take advantage of look-to-book ratios and the vast amounts of data held by hotel chains to execute loyalty program abuse. But as severe travel restrictions came into play and bookings ground to a halt, hotels became almost redundant for 12 months of the pandemic.

Online digital publishing platforms have thrived in the new media age. The ability to publish an article detailing news from around the world, within minutes of it happening, has allowed publishers to give their customers exciting and up-to-date content 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. However, like many other online platforms, publishers are often the victim of cyber-threats. Specifically, malicious bots programmed to perform a variety of attacks such as scraping, content theft and ad fraud.

Many businesses are now talking about artificial intelligence (AI), and specifically machine learning, as a way to solve data problems more effectively. In theory, this sounds easy. What could be better than using AI to get a computer to learn how to solve a problem over time, without manual intervention? The reality is very different, however.

Table of Contents In a webinar last December, Netacea’s Head of Threat Research, Matthew Gracey-McMinn, and Head of eCommerce, Tom Platt, joined forces to deep dive into the scale of the scalper bot problem, and the impact on the 2020 PS5 launch. If you missed the webinar, we’ve summarized the top takeaways for you here.

In our recent webinar, Netacea’s Head of Threat Research, Matthew Gracey-McMinn, and Enterprise Sales Manager for Travel and Tourism, Graeme Harvey, were joined by Director of Spike Digital, Duncan Colman, to delve into the top bots and cybersecurity threats set to target the travel industry in 2021.

Password managers protect your online logins. As more people are now working from home, issues of online security have made password managers an essential tool. It is too easy to fall into the habit of reusing the same password for multiple sites. Doing so is bad password hygiene. In this blog, we explore why you should use a password manager and what password hygiene is.

Table of Contents Cybercriminals are always looking for the new weak link and social media is a point of vulnerability for many businesses. As it becomes more common for social media to be used for and by businesses, the opportunity for cybercriminals to use social media in their attacks grows. Social media is an essential tool for networking, events, advertising, keeping up with trends and more.

PSD2 and Open Banking have been around for a few years now. Each aims to disrupt and future proof the financial services market following the vast technological advancements that occurred over the last two decades, and have left the industry with legacy processes and a lack of legislature to cope with emerging challenges.

Netacea’s Threat Research team works diligently to keep a close eye on emerging bot threats, ensuring we stay one step ahead of cybercriminals and hackers. The team recently completed an exclusive investigation into the Genesis Market, an illegal online marketplace for stolen credentials. While many underground markets for stolen credentials operate from the anonymity of the dark web, Genesis Market is accessible from the open web.