Educational website with 5m monthly visitors hit by hidden Monero miner
The analysts say bad actors put a script on the website that installed malware to download a cryptocurrency miner . Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity provider, revealed in a recent blog post that an undisclosed educational website fell victim to a hidden cryptojacking campaign. According to the firm’s blog post, threat actors inserted a hidden script on the website, which allowed them to remotely install malware on each visitor’s computer and to download a cryptocurrency miner from chrome-error[.]co. Although Group-IB didn’t name the website, the firm noted the educational online platform had “5 million visits per month.” You might also like: Mixin Network temporarily halts operations following $200m defi exploit The analysts say the malware archive — which was downloaded to the victim’s Downloads folder — contained an executable file that installed a mining software XMRig Coin miner to mine Monero (XMR). XMRig is a well-known...