A slew of government websites, including the site run by the United States federal court system, were among the thousands pulled into a cryptomining scheme via a third-party browser plugin. Scott Helme, a security researcher based in the United Kingdom, found malicious code planted on websites through Browsealoud, an accessibility plugin that reads websites for people with vision problems. Since the plugin is added to a site’s source code, any site running the plugin was co-opted into a scheme to mine Monero. 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 those affected are health care sites in the U.K., university sites in Sweden and makeup retail sites based in Brazil. In the U.S., uscourts.gov, Indiana’s state website and wmata.com, the website for the Washington Metro Area Transit […]
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