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