Why tourists are particularly vulnerable to cyber attacks


Travelling abroad always comes with the potential risk of cybercrime threats including spoofing, phishing attacks, catfishing, fraudulent links and calls, spamming, etc.

These travel risks are more for tourists who are generally travelling to a new country for the first time or are alone. They don’t know much about the native language of the new place or anything else and easily fall into these traps of cybercrime when travelling.

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Source: Malta Today


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