A number of popular pages were infected with malware and used to mine bitcoin as well as other virtual currencies. In fact, the creator of the malware (hackers) is now also infect government-owned sites.
Latest, citing Ubergizmo report, Tuesday (13/2/2018), a number of government sites in the United States and Britain recently infected by malware. This malware makes the web browser secretly mine Monero virtual currency.
The page is still infected with malware for several hours before it is finally restored.
Malware spreads through a popular website plugin called Browsealoud. This infected plugin is installed on 4,200 websites including on the UK healthcare page and US government courts.
These infected pages could be accessed for several hours and actively mine Monero under the control of malware spreaders.
For a few hours, chances are the hackers behind this case can get a considerable amount of profits.
the British company that created the plugin confirmed, it has removed the Browsealoud code from the internet while investigating the issue. Thus, the mining process has been closed.
The company also said no customer data was accessed or lost because of this.
With so many malware of this kind, some browsers develop script blockers to ensure their users stay safe from malware that mines virtual currency.
Previously, Kaspersky Lab has given warnings about the vulnerability that should be wary of virtual currency such as bitcoin and others.
In a statement received by Tekno Liputan6.com, Kaspersky Lab experts observed, there are so many malware attacks against this virtual currency.
For example, malware that mined bitcoin with botnet or trojan that can hack bitcoin wallet and steal bitcoin from this storage.
Not only that, there are also botnet malware that has the ability to infiltrate the victim's computer and use the victim's computer processor to be a productive bitcoin miner.
Attacks also continue to occur in the virtual currency exchange. For example the attack against the largest virtual currency exchange in the United States, BitFloor.
Because of this attack, BitFloor stopped operating in 2012, precisely after the attacker managed to infiltrate the server and stole the virtual currency worth US $ 250,000.