Indirect dark matter detection methods are presented, from the perspective of neutrino telescopes. Neutrino telescopes search for an excess of neutrinos produced in dark matter pair annihilation processes in nearby objects where a large quantity of dark matter is expected to accumulate, such as the Sun and the Galactic Centre. The KM3NeT infrastructure, currently under construction, is composed of two undersea Čerenkov neutrino detectors (ORCA and ARCA) located in two different sites in the Mediterranean Sea. The two detector configurations enable the search for dark matter particles with masses ranging from a few GeV to hundreds of TeV. In this seminar, searches for dark matter annihilations in the Galactic Centre and the Sun with data samples taken with the first configurations of both the low energy and high energy counterpart of KM3NeT are presented. No significant excess over the expected background was found in either of the two analyses, resulting in limits on parameters governing the coupling of dark matter to the Standard Model.
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