As more and more hotels are turning rooms into offices, the FBI is warning remote workers of cyber-threats lurking in the shadows
With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing an increasing number of companies to shift to remote work, employees working from home have been struggling to find a quiet, distraction-free environment for work. The hospitality industry has also been impacted by the pandemic, with more and more hotels across the United States offering their empty rooms as daytime makeshift offices for remote workers seeking to work in peace.
Taking note of the trend, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued an announcement warning about the risks of using hotel Wi-Fi networks to access sensitive and work-related information. “Malicious actors can exploit inconsistent or lax hotel Wi-Fi security and guests’ security complacency to compromise the work and personal data of hotel guests,” the Bureau warned.
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Hotel guests connected to Wi-Fi networks can be easy targets for cybercriminals, who can launch a variety of attacks to target their victims. This includes infiltrating a poorly secured network to monitor their victims’ traffic and redirect them to fraudulent login pages, or launching an “evil twin” attack, wherein the attacker creates a malicious Wi-Fi network that carries a similar name to the hotel’s network in order to dupe unsuspecting guests into connecting to it and providing the black hat direct access to their devices.
If a guest or teleworker connects to an ill-secured or vulnerable Wi-Fi netwo ..
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