DarkHotel

DarkHotel (or Darkhotel) is a targeted spear-phishing spyware and malware-spreading campaign that appears to be selectively attacking business hotel visitors through the hotel's in-house WiFi network. It has been characterized by Kaspersky Lab as an advanced persistent threat.^[1][2]

The attacks were specifically targeted at senior company executives,^[3] and used forged digital certificates, generated by factoring the underlying weak public keys of real certificates, to convince them that prompted software downloads were valid.^[4]

References

1. "The Darkhotel APT: A Story of Unusual Hospitality". Kaspersky Labs. November 10, 2014.
2. Carly Page (November 10, 2014). "Darkhotel malware is targeting travelling execs via hotel WiFi". The Inquirer.
3. Leo Kelion (2014-11-11). "DarkHotel hackers targets company bosses in hotel rooms". BBC News.
4. Dan Goodin (2014-11-10). ""DarkHotel" uses bogus crypto certificates to snare Wi-Fi-connected execs". Ars Technica.

External links

• http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/top-security-stories/hackers-use-darkhotel-malware-to-exploit-executive-targets/