Hundreds of big-name sites hacked, converted into drive-by currency miners
In Summary : The sites all ran the same piece of JavaScript hosted on vuuwd.com. The highly obfuscated code caused visitors' computers...
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In Summary :
The sites all ran the same piece of JavaScript hosted on vuuwd.com. The highly obfuscated code caused visitors' computers to dedicate 80 percent of their CPU resources to mining the digital coin known as Monero with no notice or permission. The attacker behind the campaign took control of the sites by exploiting a Drupal [...]
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https://arstechnica.com/?p=1304369
The sites all ran the same piece of JavaScript hosted on vuuwd.com. The highly obfuscated code caused visitors' computers to dedicate 80 percent of their CPU resources to mining the digital coin known as Monero with no notice or permission. The attacker behind the campaign took control of the sites by exploiting a Drupal [...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1304369
