Luxury hotels in at least seven European capitals were the target of attacks in which the Russian state hackers are said to have accessed wifi systems to spy on wealthy and influential guests RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/GETTYRussian hackers who infiltrated the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee in the US are now focusing on the wifi networks of European hotels to spy on guests in a “chilling” cyberoperation. The state-sponsored Fancy Bear group infected the networks of luxury hotels in at least seven European countries and one Middle Eastern country last month, researchers say. FireEye, the US cybersecurity company that discovered the attacks, said the hotels were in capital cities and belonged to international chains that diplomats, business leaders and wealthy travellers would use. None of the hotels known to have been a target was in the UK but all regularly host British guests. According to FireEye, the hackers gained access to a first computer in each hotel’s network using…

Source: The Times August 15, 2017 16:07 UTC