Are you making plans for your summer vacation? Cybercriminals are working hard to ruin it.
Hotel website Booking.com has warned that cybercriminals armed with advanced artificial intelligence tools are spreading phishing emails that appear to be sent from genuine travel sites in an attempt to get recipients to reveal personal information along with financial account credentials. Marnie Wilking, chief information security officer at Booking.com, told AFP that the company has seen a 500% to 900% increase in suspicious emails in recent days.
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Are you making plans for your summer vacation? Cybercriminals are working hard to ruin it.
Hotel website Booking.com has warned that cybercriminals armed with advanced artificial intelligence tools are spreading phishing emails that appear to be sent from genuine travel sites in an attempt to get recipients to reveal personal information along with financial account credentials. Marnie Wilking, chief information security officer at Booking.com, told AFP that the company has seen a 500% to 900% increase in suspicious emails in recent days.
The Better Business Bureau also says it has seen a rise in fake airfare websites promising cheap flights. A typical sign a website is a scam is one that “doesn’t have a valid customer service number or physical address,” according to the bureau.
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Walmart is embarking on a major project to replace paper price tags on its store shelves with digital shelf tags that employees can update using a mobile app, allowing price changes that would normally take two days to be completed in just minutes, Walmart says. Walmart plans to roll out the digital tags to about half of its 10,000 stores by 2026.
Overall, TikTok was the highest-grossing app in the first quarter, bringing in $1.2 billion. Credit: SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images
App Spending Breaks Record
Consumers spent $35 billion on mobile apps in the first quarter, the highest amount ever, according to app tracking firm Sensor Tower. Entertainment apps, which include social networks and streaming services, were the top-grossing category. Overall, TikTok was the highest-grossing app, earning $1.2 billion in the first quarter. This marks TikTok’s fourth consecutive year as the top-grossing app. Monopoly Go was the highest-grossing mobile game.
American Express has acquired restaurant reservation and event management platform Tock from Squarespace for $400 million. Photo: AP/Steven Senne
Amex acquires restaurant reservation service
American Express agreed to buy Tok from Squarespace for $400 million, adding a service that lets customers dine on fine dining and make other hard-to-book reservations. Tok is known for catering at high-end restaurants, including New York City favorites Par Se and Jean-Georges. Restaurants are a major spending category for AmEx customers, with sales exceeding $100 billion last year. — Bloomberg News
