Discrete Malware Lures Execs At High-End Hotels

Kaspersky Lab's analysis of the 'DarkHotel' campaign describes a long-running, highly targeted operation that compromised select high-end hotel networks to deliver information-stealing malware to traveling executives via tailored iFrame-based watering-hole attacks and fake software updates; the actors used zero-day exploits and removed malicious artifacts after targeted guests left, with most observed activity affecting victims in Japan.