Popular Thesaurus Website Used in Sneaky Cryptojacking Scheme (www.hackread.com)

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[-] 6xpipe_@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The article doesn’t list the infected site. So, if you want to keep yourself safe by avoiding it, well… fuck you, I guess.

Edit: just skimmed through the original Group-IB report and they redacted the name of the site. Not the article’s fault that millions of people are still in danger to this malware.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 10 points 9 months ago

From the description it looks like it was malvertising, not an hacked website that distributed malware like that download manager

this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2023

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