Microsoft Adds Support for JavaScript in Excel—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Shortly after Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel, someone demonstrated what could possibly go wrong if this feature is abused for malicious purposes. As promised last year at Microsoft's Ignite 2017 conference, the company has now brought custom JavaScript...

Pocket cryptofarms

In recent months, the topic of cryptocurrency has been a permanent news fixture — the value of digital money has been see-sawing spectacularly. Such pyrotechnics could hardly have escaped the attention of scammers, which is why cryptocurrency fluctuations have gone hand in hand with all kinds of...

Malicious cryptomining and the blacklist conundrum

When Coinhive first came out in September of 2017, it was fairly easy to identify websites using browser miners by looking for a few lines referencing the Coinhive API within the HTML source code. Because this was a new phenomenon, even bad actors didn't have to hide their intentions, and...

Who and What Is Coinhive?

Multiple security firms recently identified cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive as the top malicious threat to Web users, thanks to the tendency for Coinhive's computer code to be used on hacked Web sites to steal the processing power of its visitors' devices. This post looks at how Coinhive...

Hijacking Computers for Cryptocurrency Mining

Interesting paper "A first look at browser-based cryptojacking": Abstract: In this paper, we examine the recent trend towards in-browser mining of cryptocurrencies; in particular, the mining of Monero through Coinhive and similar code-bases. In this model, a user visiting a website will download ...

Ad Network Circumvents Ad-Blocking Tools To Run In-Browser Cryptojacker Scripts

Cryptojackers are getting resourceful and have figured out how to bypass ad-blocking software and deliver the Coinhive JavaScript miner via browser-based ads. Researchers at Qihoo’s Netlab 360 said it recently spotted an advertising network that was using what is called a domain generation...

Cryptojacking Attack Found on Los Angeles Times Website

Researchers said they found cryptojacking code hidden on the Los Angeles Times’ interactive Homicide Report webpage that was quietly harnessing visitors’ CPUs to mine Monero cryptocurrency. The cryptojacking incident was found by Troy Mursch, a security researcher at Bad Packets Report, on...

Thousands of Government Websites Hacked to Mine Cryptocurrencies

There was a time when hackers simply defaced websites to get attention, then they started hijacking them to spread banking trojan and ransomware, and now the trend has shifted towards injecting scripts into sites to mine cryptocurrencies. Thousands of government websites around the world have bee...

Coinhive JavaScript Miner Detection

This script reports if a web page of the remote host contains code from the Coinhive JavaScript Miner. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

New Deepfakes forum goes mining with Coinhive

You may or may be familiar with the furore over Deepfakes, a relatively new development in pornography involving a tool called FacesApp, which is capable of producing a real porn clip that replaces the original actors' heads with those of celebrities—or indeed, anyone at all. Online fakes have be...

Coinhive – Monero JavaScript Mining Information Disclosure (SecretKey) Vulnerability

This Exploits allows the attacker to gain the secret key of either several targets by using dork provided, or specific target by following description. NOTICE: secretkey != privatekey of any wallet. This is private exploit. You can buy it at https://0day.today...

Keylogger Campaign Returns, Infecting 2,000 WordPress Sites

Over 2,000 WordPress sites are infected with a malicious script that can deliver both a keylogger and the in-browser cryptocurrency miner CoinHive. Researchers at Sucuri who made the discovery, said the recent campaign is tied to threat actors behind a December 2017 campaign that infected over...

Fake Android apps caught dropping Coinhive miner

By Waqas In October last year, three Android apps on Play Store This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake Android apps caught dropping Coinhive miner...

BlackBerry Mobile Website hacked to mine Monero via Coinhive

By Waqas A Coinhive user hacked BlackBerry Mobile website to mine Monero coins before This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: BlackBerry Mobile Website hacked to mine Monero via Coinhive...

Cromos - Download and Inject code into Google Chrome extensions

Cromos is a tool for downloading legitimate extensions of the Chrome Web Store and inject codes in the background of the application and more cromos create executable files to force installation via PowerShell for example, and also upload files to dropbox to host the malicious files. Download...

A look into the global drive-by cryptocurrency mining phenomenon

An important milestone in the history of cryptomining happened around mid-September when a company called Coinhive launched a service that could mine for a digital currency known as Monero directly within a web browser. JavaScript-based mining is cross-platform compatible and works on all modern...

jQuery Blog Gets Hacked – Hackers Compromise CoinHive’s DNS

By Waqas In two different incidents, security of high profile platforms was This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: jQuery Blog Gets Hacked Hackers Compromise CoinHives DNS...

jQuery Official Blog Hacked — Stay Calm, Library is Safe!

The official blog of jQuery—most popular JavaScript library used by millions of websites—has been hacked by some unknown hackers, using the pseudonym "str0ng" and "n3tr1x." jQuery's blog website blog.jquery.com runs on WordPress—the world's most popular content management system CMS used by...

Hacker Hijacks CoinHive's DNS to Mine Cryptocurrency Using Thousands of Websites

When yesterday I was reporting about the sudden outbreak of another global ransomware attack 'Bad Rabbit,' I thought what could be worse than this? Then late last night I got my answer with a notification that Coinhive has been hacked — a popular browser-based service that offers website owners t...

A week in security (October 16 – October 22)

Last week was an eventful one in security, keeping our research and intel teams on their toes. Multiple security researchers homed in on suspicious and malicious apps on Google Play, affecting thousands of Android users. A new variant of Mac malware Proton was also found in the wild, this time...