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Subject: [ISN] Luxury Hotel Wi-Fi Hacked To Target Business Executives
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2014-11-11 8:06:07
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1411110805530.29600 () infosecnews ! org
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http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/security/hotel-wifi-hacked-executives-kaspersky-155165
By Michael Moore
Tech Week Europe
10 Nov 2014
High-powered executives staying in luxury foreign hotels are being
targeted by a new security threat which looks to spy into their devices, a
report has revealed.
Following a four year-long investigation, web security firm Kaspersky has
revealed that the "Darkhotel" APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) is able to
spy into the devices of business leaders, attacking them as they try to
connect to a compromised hotel Wi-Fi network.
Upon connecting, the threat tricks the user into downloading a backdoor
masquerading as a legitimate software update, which infects the device
with Darkhotel.
This spying software then hunts through the victim's cached passwords,
login credentials and steals keystrokes entered on the device, with the
aim of accessing the intellectual property of the business entities the
user represents.
[...]
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