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2018: Cracking of the program for production of cryptocurrencies
On February 11, 2018 within several hours thousands of websites including belonging to the American and state governmental bodies were infected with a malicious code which forced browsers and computers of users of these resources to mine cryptocurrency. The news The Register portal knew of it.
According to its data, the websites the cracked version of the Browsealoud program from Texthelp company which facilitates reading Internet pages to people with sight problems infected. This tool after completion by cyberswindlers started Monero which is built in by software for cryptocurrency mining, using for this purpose computers which came on the "infected" resources. Presumably, the unknown hacker could change the Browsealoud code and implement in it the CoinHive miner.
The expert in cyber security Scott Helm who detected the code for cryptocurrency mining reported that harmful software was used by 40% of computing powers of processors of the victims and sent the received cryptocurrency to address 1GdQGpY1pivrGlVHSp5P2IIr9cyTzzXq.
The websites of Management of the commissioner according to information, the non-profit government organization Student Loans Company, general medical council and an informational portal of the National health care system were as a result infected. Also the list included the websites of the Indian government and judicial system of the USA.
In the British and American authorities whose websites suffered from this incident, do not give comments about the incident. The Texthelp company turned off expansion on all computers and began to investigate a situation. How many hackers managed to mine cryptocurrencies using this code, by February 12, 2018 it is not reported.
The high rate of cryptocurrencies attracts to earnings of the people having access to computing resources. In the press there were many statements in which it was said that the staff of the companies uses corporate computers for mining of digital currencies.[1]
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