Stefan Esser shares a rare example of the so-called ‘Evil Maid’ attack on a laptop left unattended in a hotel room. He explains the dangers of leaving laptops and phones in the hotel room unattended. He says it’s not just poisoned donuts or not changing the towels – its actually where someone creeps into your room and tampers with your device, placing something horrible and data theft-ish on it before retreating back into the shadows. The Evil Maid attack was coined by Joanna Rutkowska back in 2009, and you can fall victim to it.”]
Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2015/10/leaving-laptops-in-hotel-rooms-a-bad-idea/