A recent survey from McAfee Labs shows 34% of Americans have decreased trust in online travel booking, due partly to AI and deepfakes. McAfee Head of Threat Research Abhishek Karnik joins Wealth! to discuss the survey and how travelers can protect themselves ahead of their summer vacation plans.
So here to give us some tips on how to have a fun summer travel season while also staying vigilant, we've got Abhishek Knick, who is the McAfee head of threat research.
I think people are getting ready for for travel season, and therefore you can see an evolution of threats in that space to assist the threats.The bad guys are leveraging air and and trying to, you know, utilise that to create automated text messages or even automated emails.Sometimes you're seeing deep fakes, uh, things like that.It's before you travel.Uh, and be cautious of phishing scams.
Uh, so having that heightened level of scepticism, uh, not believing, uh, you know who's interacting with you don't take their word, for it is extremely important and having the right tools in place as well.For example, when you're hopping on to free wi Wi Fi is equally important, because these are the different sort of, uh, vantage points that scammers are utilising to take your money away.
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