Expect continued attacks on hotel networks – Computer Sweden

David Emm is a security researcher at Kaspersky Lab in the UK and he believes that we can expect further attacks against hotels network.

Dark Hotel is proper name of a loose-knit organization whose purpose is to through unsuspecting managers get into the corporate network. The hackers begin to get into the hotels local network so as to get further into the guests’ corporate networks.

This is done through traditional methods such as phishing through e-mail or to attract hotel guests to visit various peer-2-peer sites, often with adult content. The survey shows that the hacker activities of this kind is most common in Asian hotels, but they also exist in European countries.

– Our investigation shows that a Japanese P2P Packages with adult content was downloaded 30,000 times in six months, said David Emm, who is security researcher at Kaspersky Lab in the UK.

Hacker Activity The object is So people high-level organizations, which often live in upscale hotels and expect that networks are secure. But David Emm recalls that the hotel industry often lack technical experience.

– Previously, hotels offer services like photocopying and faxing. Today, the internet.

Sometimes a hotels provide Ipads for its guests during their stay.

– Newly discovered a colleague that in Ipadsen were the previous visitors’ passwords cashed. Not so good.

Kaspersky Lab received widespread media dissemination of its report and it has been labeled a certain decline of activities in the Dark Hotel.

– But it is most likely just a temporary downturn.