Not only the social media platforms used as cryptocurrency cryptocurrency fields, the government's site is also a victim of this evil practice.
A malicious software is allegedly entered into a local government website for the Queensland, Australia area that includes legislation sites as well as Civil and Administrative Courts sites. The Victoria Parliament site is also a victim of the malware.
Scott Helme, a British security researcher, became the first person to be aware of the situation. Alarm of an anti-virus program reads for the site of the UK Commissioner's Information Office. In the hack, there is a Coinhive program as a cryptocurrency mining tool that works when the site is loaded. The malicious practice was allegedly done four hours before Texthelp, the plug-in site over Browsealoud acted. Texthelp implements an automatic security test for Browsealoud, and it detects the modified document and as a result it has been disabled," explains Martin McKay as Texthelp Chief Technology Officer. Although responsibility is entirely in the hands of Texthelp, Helme says government sites should have higher levels of security if they use third party services, such as Browsealoud. In addition to Australia, a number of British and American government websites are reportedly also hacked and used to mine crypto currency. On Sunday (11/2) there were over 4,200 sites managed by US and UK government agencies hacked. Hackers insert code that allows the browser engine to secretly mine the digital currency.This hack makes the software used by site visitors secretly mine crypto currency for hackers.
Quick steps already made by Texthelp is to close the operation by disabling Browsealoud and instructing its technical team to investigate the case. This case further adds to the long list of hacked site platform incidents and forced software on site visitor tools to mine crypto currency for hackers.
Sumber: CNN Indonesia
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