Security News > 2018 > November > Attackers breached Statcounter to steal cryptocurrency from gate.io users

Web analytics company Statcounter and cryptocurrency exchange gate.io have been compromised in another supply-chain attack, which resulted in an unknown number of gate.io customers getting their money stolen, according to ESET. The attack The compromise was first detected by researchers of IT security company firm ESET, who noticed that that the script (www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js) that Statcounter script its clients add to their websites has been modified to include malicious code: The injected code did the following: … More → The post Attackers breached Statcounter to steal cryptocurrency from gate.io users appeared first on Help Net Security.

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