Cybercriminals Leverage Hijacked Booking.com accounts for Phishing

I recently heard about a wave of scams exploiting Booking.com users. So I went and researched it for myself. I came across a post on the r/travel subreddit about such an incident. [1]

The user received a seemingly authentic message with a URL via Booking.com's app. They provided their credit card information and said that “within mere minutes of this, an attempt was made to use [their] credit card for an online purchase.”

As others pointed out on Reddit, the …

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