Site owners should be on guard against attacks, even if they might perceive themselves as being of little interest to cyber adversaries. Island-hopping attacks, where adversaries target an organization so they can access networks belonging to its customers, partners, and other affiliates, are on the rise. Security vendor ESET says attackers successfully breached StatCounter on Nov. 3 and injected code into a JavaScript tag that webmasters add to their site pages to track visitors. The malicious code was designed to steal bitcoins from users of crytpocurrency exchange gate.io, a site that uses StatCounter.”]

