3,500 Websites Hijacked to Secretly Mine Crypto Using Stealth JavaScript and WebSocket Tactics

A new attack campaign has compromised more than 3,500 websites worldwide with JavaScript cryptocurrency miners, marking the return of browser-based cryptojacking attacks once popularized by the likes of CoinHive. Although the service has since shuttered after browser makers took steps to ban...

Indonesian Hacker Group Cashes In On Blockbuster Movie Titles

When breaking the law isn't a barrier, there’s always a way to make a quick buck. We see it every day, and this time from an Indonesian cybercrime campaign infecting vulnerable websites by luring their visitors to a network of scam websites using blockbuster movies. The attack part I: Recruiting...

Antivirus firm ESET and BitDefender website Hijacked by Pro-Palestinian Hackers

A pro-Palestinian hacktivist group 'KDMS Team', who recently managed to briefly hijack the Metasploit website of security firm Rapid7 and become popular after Hacking World's largest Web Hosting Network Leaseweb website and antivirus vendors AVG, Avira as well as mobile messaging service WhatsApp...

Hijacked Web Sites Among The Most Visited On Google's Black List

Legitimate Web sites that have been hijacked and used to serve malicious content greately outnumber malicious sites on a list of the most-trafficked sites on Google’s blacklist, according to analysis by security firm Zscaler. Zscaler analyzed the top one million Web sites on the Web, based on...