السبت، 22 نوفمبر 2014

Hackers are targeting Internet networks in hotels since 2009 to steal the secrets of guests









To computer security company revealed the process by which a group of hackers to exploit Internet networks to steal the secrets of the hotels guests, especially their high office holders.

Kaspersky Lab has launched a company to process piracy name "dark hotel" DarkHotel, a process that is expected to exercise it against multiple guests Hotels in Asia since 2009 at least.

The company estimated that, through the official blog, the number of victims that process thousands of guests, adding that two-thirds of these victims were targeted during their stay in Japan only hotels.

Other attacks and distributed within the process of the "dark hotel" for the victims in Taiwan and China, hotels and a number of other Asian countries, where the victims were targeted malicious software as soon as they connect to the Internet to those hotels networks.

The company indicated that the pirates designed fake updates to software such as Adobe Flash and Google workers tape your toolbox loaded malicious software to steal the secrets of guests immediately install these updates, and special trade secrets that were sourced from people with high positions in major companies and institutions.

Kaspersky Lab did not reveal the names of any of the hotels or persons who have been targeted during the process of the "dark hotel", where merely by asserting that the process was in its entirety organization where they were targeting specific individuals through.

The company said, "During the preparations for the attacks, he was known pirate information such as the date of arrival and departure of the visitor and his room number as well as a range of other information, such as his full name."

Kaspersky Lab said it could not identify any organization or individual piracy group behind the process, but when the pirates penetration skills suggest the existence of a government behind it, before the company returns to confirm that some of those skills practiced freshmen from Internet hackers and computers routinely.

It is noteworthy that the most prominent of the target during the process Itbooan senior positions in companies operating in areas such as electronics, automotive and capital consulting industry and the pharmaceutical and cosmetic manufacturing, as well as the institutions of government, legal and Bmnzat non-governmental and military officials responsible.

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