Reservation Confirmed: Threat Actors Visiting the Hospitality World

In this episode, Joe Wise, Threat Researcher at Proofpoint, joins the show to discuss his and Selena’s research into a small e-crime actor, TA558 and its targeting against the hospitality and travel e-crime sector since at least 2018.Join us as we discuss:Classifying threat actors and how it relates to s’moresUnderstanding e-crime vs. APT actorsWhy hospitality and travel e-crimes are still successfulTA558’s TTPs and how their consistencies have aided in Proofpoint’s attribution of their activity over the yearsJoe shares his theories on why TA558 uses so many different malware typesCheck out these resources we mentioned:https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/reservations-requested-ta558-targets-hospitality-and-travel https://embed.sounder.fm/play/299042  Keep up with the latest tales from the threat research trenches by subscribing to DISCARDED in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get podcasts. Thanks for listening!