DarkHotel
DarkHotel is classified as state-sponsored.
- Malware families
- 10
- Suspected state sponsor
- South Korea
- Also known as
- 16
Kaspersky described DarkHotel in a 2014 report as: '... DarkHotel drives its campaigns by spear-phishing targets with highly advanced Flash zero-day exploits that effectively evade the latest Windows and Adobe defenses, and yet they also imprecisely spread among large numbers of vague targets with peer-to-peer spreading tactics. Moreover, this crews most unusual characteristic is that for several years the Darkhotel APT has maintained a capability to use hotel networks to follow and hit selected targets as they travel around the world.'
The group is suspected of operating with the support of South Korea.
The group is associated with 10 malware families.
Also known as: DUBNIUM, Fallout Team, Karba, Luder, Nemim, Nemin, Tapaoux, Pioneer, Shadow Crane, APT-C-06, SIG25, TUNGSTEN BRIDGE, T-APT-02, G0012, ATK52, Zigzag Hail
The group is associated with 10 malware families.
Malware families
- Asruex
- DarkHotel
- Jaku
- Nemim
- Ramsay
- Retro
- RMOT
- SpyGrace
- Tapaoux
- ThinMon
Published reports on this actor:
- https://securelist.com/blog/research/71713/darkhotels-attacks-in-2015/
- https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2016/06/09/reverse-engineering-dubnium-2
- https://securelist.com/blog/research/66779/the-darkhotel-apt/
Source: MISP Galaxy, Malpedia.
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