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Attackers Hijacked 4275 Websites for Mining

Hackers hijacked 4275 websites to inject Coinhive Monero miner. Sites of government authorities including NHS Foundation (nhs.gov.uk), and uscourts.uk). Attackers hijacked Browsealoud plugin that adds speech, reading, and translation to the website has been compromised and its host scripts was modified. The plugin was temporarily taken down by Texthelp, who confirmed it was hacked on 11.14am on Sunday and the hack lasts for four hours. The mining script was first noticed by Information Security Consultant Scott Helme.”]

Source: https://gbhackers.com/crypto-mining-attacks-4275-websites/

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