Submitted via IRC for Bytram
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/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14 2018, @07:05AM
Problem here is NOT Javascript. It's all these stupid-ass morons "content developers" pulling Javascript shit from all over the internet.
And this is not just some idiots with blogs. We are talking about banks and similar places, where this shit can affect your livelihood. It's almost like they are too cheap or stupid to host their own copies.
This stuff is only possibly because of this idiocracy in the web development world.