Security News > 2018 > November > Make-A-Wish website compromised to serve cryptojacking script

Visitors of the international website of the US-based non-profit Make-A-Wish Foundation have had their computing power misused to covertly mine cryptocurrency, Trustwave researchers have found. The compromise In-browser cryptomining is not illegal and many website owners prefer using as a money-making substitute for ads, but they usually inform the visitors about it. In the majority of cases, though, covert cryptomining is a sign that cybercrooks have compromised the website, injected their own cryptomining script in … More → The post Make-A-Wish website compromised to serve cryptojacking script appeared first on Help Net Security.

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