Darkhotel: WiFi luxury hotels used to steal data … – Generation NT

The risk of piracy data from a computer or connected to a public WiFi network smartphone is a known threat but it is a true “ campaign espionage “operated for” at least four years “that describes the editor Kaspersky .

The system Darkhotel WiFi access target leaders and business executives traveling abroad in luxury hotels for steal sensitive data . The device is still active and is aimed at managers of large companies when traveling in Asia.

Darkhotel works by replacing the legitimate WiFi Hotel when connecting from individuals, encourages them to download software presented as an update of current software but is actually a backdoor then to download the computer software keylogger (logger), a horse Trojan and a tool to retrieve information such as passwords in web browsers, and private information, to the extent possible, sensitive corporate data, such as information on current projects and intellectual property.

Kaspersky Lab says that the attacks are usually highly targeted and the authors meticulously erase their tracks after passing, never attacking the same person twice and attempting to recover as much information from the first intrusion.

The editor evokes “ methods and techniques that go well beyond conventional cybercrime ” with “ of operational attack, mathematical and cryptanalytic skills, as well as other worthy enough to abuse trade networks of trust and target specific categories of victims with strategic precision “resources, which probably suggests the action of the intelligence services of the country.

The threat is still active, Kaspersky reminds instructions caution, namely consider any network outside the scope of the company as potentially dangerous and through VPN and other encryption systems for communications.

It is also always remain vigilant with respect to updates and provide tools for proactive monitoring detect unusual activities