Tag Archives: Spear Phishing
Targeted Hacking Attempts Against High-Profile Hotel Guests
Over on Wired is a post about high-profile hotel guests, mainly but not always in Asia, being the targets of what are known as spear-phishing attacks. As opposed to regular phishing attacks which target as many people as possible, and which we’ll learn about later, spear-phishing attacks target a particular individual and attempt to steal data. The specific malware used for these attacks, and the group using it, is known appropriately as DarkHotel.
To summarize the article, the attackers would upload malicious software to the hotel server, then when the target logged on to the hotel WiFi they would be prompted to download an update to some Adobe software (the article didn’t state which, however never, ever download updates over public or even semi-private networks), but what they actually got was an infection.
Looks can be deceiving
