Government websites in US and UK secretly bottom cryptocurrency
A security expert found that thousands of public web sites, many of which belong to local authorities and government agencies secretly bottom triptocaine on visitors ‘ computers.
In the UK this occurs, for example, on the website of the office of the Commissioner for information, Student loan Companies, the General medical Council and state medical center NHS.
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
On the other side of the ocean a hidden engaged in mining sites owned by the government of the state of Indiana and the system of courts of the United States, who use software CoinHive.
The problem is related to software called BrowseAloud, which is built into all of the affected sites. BrowseAloud offers access to government services and information to users with visual impairments. AT was hacked for the introduction of new tools CoinHive.
It seems like the @texthelp script file was modified between Sun, 11 Feb 2018 02:58:04 GMT and Sun, 11 Feb 2018 13:21:56 GMT according to the @internetarchive:https://t.co/jwKLA6mq7Nhttps://t.co/ZHiUJXBpxC
— Scott Helme (@Scott_Helme) February 11, 2018
Earlier we wrote that the majority of viruses miners is on porn sites. However, it turns out, even government sites can be vulnerable to hacking and stealth mining “using” visitors. Thus, again, the question arises about network security, even on a seemingly completely safe sites.
To defend against covert mining experts recommend to use the plugin No Coin which is available for Firefox, Chrome and Opera. Moreover, Opera has built-in protection against such threats.
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