Hotel front desks are now a hotbed for hackers

guest · Nov 28, 2019

Hotel front desks are now a hotbed for hackers
The hospitality industry can’t catch a break when it comes to cybercrime
November 28, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/hotel-front-desks-are-now-a-hot-target-for-hackers/

Hotels, restaurant chains, and related tourism services have been subject to a range of techniques when it comes to cybercrime; the compromise of Point-of-Sale (PoS) terminals to harvest guest data, phishing emails sent to staff which are designed to give attackers access to internal systems, and Man-in-The-Middle (MiTM) attacks through hotel public W-Fi hotspots being only some of the potential attack vectors.

To add to a growing list of threat actors that specialize in attacks against hotels and hospitality organizations, such as DarkHotel, on Thursday, Kaspersky published research on a targeted campaign called RevengeHotels.
RevengeHotels has struck at least 20 hotels in quick succession. The threat actors focus on hotels, hostels, and hospitality & tourism companies.

If a system is vulnerable, VBS or PowerShell scripts are used to exploit the bug, leading to the deployment of RevengeRAT, NjRAT, NanoCoreRAT, 888 RAT, ProCC, and other custom malware.
The Trojans are able to burrow into infected computers, creating tunnels back to the operator's command-and-control (C2) server and maintaining persistence. An additional module, dubbed ScreenBooking and written by the group, is used to capture payment card information.
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Discussions of the groups taking place in underground forums reveal that front desk machines, and not just online services or PoS systems, are also being targeted through the campaign.
Some cybercriminals are also flogging remote access to front desks to generate additional income as a service.

[...] Kaspersky says. "While paying for your reservation or checking out at a hotel, [...] use a secondary or less important credit card, as you never know if the system at the hotel is clean [...]"
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Kaspersky: RevengeHotels: cybercrime targeting hotel front desks worldwide

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