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<\/a><\/p>\nDarkhotel: A Spy Campaign in Luxury Asian Hotels<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This November, Kaspersky Lab detailed the discovery of a spy network, dubbed \u2018Darkhotel\u2019, which has been active for seven years in a number of luxury Asian hotels. The attacks work something like this: the Darkhotel threat actor compromises certain hotels that attract high-level, traveling business execs. After checking into the hotel, the executive tries to connect to Wi-Fi (which requires a surname and room number). The attackers will offer an update for legitimate software, which will also install a backdoor. Finally, once the attackers are in, they can use a set of tools to collect data, find passwords and steal login credentials.<\/p>\n Read highlights from our most popular #security news posts from November.<\/p>Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n Kurt Baumgartner, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab, perhaps explained it best when he said, \u201cFor the past few years, a strong actor named Darkhotel has performed a number of successful attacks against high-profile individuals, employing methods and techniques that go well beyond typical cybercriminal behavior. This threat actor has operational competence, mathematical and crypto-analytical offensive capabilities, and other resources that are sufficient to abuse trusted commercial networks and target specific victim categories with strategic precision.\u201d<\/p>\n #Darkhotel<\/a>: a spy campaign in luxury Asian hotels \u2013 https:\/\/t.co\/RVxkUg1B2K<\/a> via @kaspersky<\/a> #security<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Kaspersky (@kaspersky) November 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n