Don’t check into “Darkhotel”! - Banking Exchange
Don’t check into “Darkhotel”! - Banking Exchange
It sounds like something out of a horror movie. Maybe it will be.
But today it’s very real: A particularly insidious malware called Darkhotel is lurking.
Darkhotel targets business executives who stay in high-end hotels around the world. Bankers themselves must be aware of it, and should warn their commercial clients about it.
The threat has been researched by the Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team, which says that the malware has been around for at least four years and continues as a threat.
Darkhotel hits its targets while they are staying in luxury hotels. The crew behind it never goes after the same target twice; they operate with surgical precision, obtaining all the valuable data they can from the first contact, deleting traces of their work, and fading into the background to await the next high-profile target.
The most recent travelling targets include top executives from the U.S. and Asia doing business and investing in East Asia: CEOs, senior vice-presidents, sales and marketing directors, and research and development staff.....
The rest of the article here: http://www.bankingexchange.com/news-feed/item/5068-don-t-check-into-darkhotel?Itemid%3D101
It sounds like something out of a horror movie. Maybe it will be.
But today it’s very real: A particularly insidious malware called Darkhotel is lurking.
Darkhotel targets business executives who stay in high-end hotels around the world. Bankers themselves must be aware of it, and should warn their commercial clients about it.
The threat has been researched by the Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team, which says that the malware has been around for at least four years and continues as a threat.
Darkhotel hits its targets while they are staying in luxury hotels. The crew behind it never goes after the same target twice; they operate with surgical precision, obtaining all the valuable data they can from the first contact, deleting traces of their work, and fading into the background to await the next high-profile target.
The most recent travelling targets include top executives from the U.S. and Asia doing business and investing in East Asia: CEOs, senior vice-presidents, sales and marketing directors, and research and development staff.....
The rest of the article here: http://www.bankingexchange.com/news-feed/item/5068-don-t-check-into-darkhotel?Itemid%3D101
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