Kaspersky identifies that Darkhotel is a group of attackers that “seems to know in advance when these individuals will arrive and depart from their high-end hotels. So, the attackers lay in wait until these travelers arrive and connect to the Internet.” The Kaspersky report issued on November 10, 2014 is entitled “THE DARKHOTEL APT A STORY OF UNUSUAL HOSPITALITY” and should be disturbing to everyone who travels, and particularly in Japan since “over 90% of it occurs in the top five countries: Japan, followed by Taiwan, China, Russia and Korea.”
eWeek reported that Darkhotel was a:
cyber-espionage group has compromised the computer systems of corporate executives by infecting the networks of the hotels where they typically stay and then serving up malware while they connected to the Internet.
