Reservation Confirmed: Threat Actors Visiting the Hospitality World

DISCARDED: Tales From the Threat Research Trenches

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’mores
Understanding e-crime vs. APT actors
Why hospitality and travel e-crimes are still successful
TA558’s TTPs and how their consistencies have aided in Proofpoint’s attribution of their activity over the years
Joe shares his theories on why TA558 uses so many different malware types
Check 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
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