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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 13 2018, @12:51PM   Printer-friendly
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Thousands of websites around the world – from the UK's NHS and ICO to the US government's court system – were today secretly mining crypto-coins on netizens' web browsers for miscreants unknown.

The affected sites all use a fairly popular plugin called Browsealoud, made by Brit biz Texthelp, which reads out webpages for blind or partially sighted people.

This technology was compromised in some way – either by hackers or rogue insiders altering Browsealoud's source code – to silently inject Coinhive's Monero miner into every webpage offering Browsealoud.

For several hours today, anyone who visited a site that embedded Browsealoud inadvertently ran this hidden mining code on their computer, generating money for the miscreants behind the caper.

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/11/browsealoud_compromised_coinhive/


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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:54PM (#637226)

    If commentator is MikeeUSA why should he then kill himself?

    Is this not a rhetorical question?

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