Security News > 2018 > February > Thousands of government, orgs’ websites found serving crypto mining script
2018-02-12 17:37
On Sunday, over 4,200 websites around the world started hijacking visitors’ browsers to mine the Monero crypto currency. The attack The problem was first noticed and partly documented by security researcher Scott Helme: Ummm, so yeah, this is *bad*. I just had @phat_hobbit point out that @ICOnews has a cryptominer installed on their site… 😮 pic.twitter.com/xQhspR7A2f — Scott Helme (@Scott_Helme) February 11, 2018 Among the compromised websites were that of UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office and … More →
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