{"id":1155,"date":"2026-08-04T10:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2026-08-17T10:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:07:45","slug":"russia-state-sponsored-hackers-turn-hotel-and-conference-wi-fi-networks-into-malware-delivery-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/russia-state-sponsored-hackers-turn-hotel-and-conference-wi-fi-networks-into-malware-delivery-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia State-Sponsored Hackers Turn Hotel and Conference Wi-Fi Networks Into Malware Delivery Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian state backed hackers are compromising public Wi-Fi infrastructure at hotels, conference centres and other shared venues to intercept travellers\u2019 internet traffic, distribute remote-access malware and steal access to corporate cloud accounts, according to new research from Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The campaign, which Microsoft calls <strong>CaptiveCrunch<\/strong>, has been attributed to Storm-2945, an operational subgroup of Midnight Blizzard\u2014the long-running cyberespionage operation also known as APT29, Cozy Bear and Nobelium. The United States and United Kingdom have previously linked Midnight Blizzard to Russia\u2019s Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/russia-state-sponsored-hackers-turn-hotel-and-conference-wi-fi-networks-into-malware-delivery-systems\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/russia-state-sponsored-hackers-turn-hotel-conference-u3nme\/\">(10) Russia State-Sponsored Hackers Turn Hotel and Conference Wi-Fi Networks Into Malware Delivery Systems | LinkedIn<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Russia State-Sponsored Hackers Turn Hotel and Conference Wi-Fi Networks Into Malware Delivery Systems<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian state backed hackers are compromising public Wi-Fi infrastructure at hotels, conference centres and other shared venues to intercept travellers\u2019 internet traffic, distribute remote-access malware and steal access to corporate cloud accounts, according to new research from Microsoft. The campaign, which Microsoft calls CaptiveCrunch, has been attributed to Storm-2945, an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[72,9],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malware","tag-72","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}