The 2025 Trustwave Hospitality Risk Radar highlights escalating cyber risks as hotels, resorts, and travel services expand digital platforms, cloud reliance, IoT, and guest connectivity. With over 95,000 vulnerabilities found, 61.5% of attacks exploit exposed services, often through SNMP, HTTPS, and SSH misconfigurations. Threats include ransomware, booking fraud, and dark web “travel agents” selling stolen services. Unique challenges stem from seasonal staff, constant guest turnover, dirty networks, and franchise inconsistencies. Trustwave urges proactive defenses: agile patching, enforcing MFA and least privilege, monitoring remote access tools, securing vendors, testing backups, and raising employee awareness to strengthen resilience.

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