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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Nearly 700,000 websites are hacked in bid to steal cryptocurrency
by
metalglowd
on 09/11/2018, 23:12:36 UTC
This is one of the reasons that traditional investors and big investors are afraid to enter this market. Large-scale attacks by hackers on websites, trading platforms, to steal assets Cryptocurrency is always an obsession for investors. We need to have a solution against hackers, this market is very potential but it does not attract many people, because it is too risky.

"Popular web analytics platform Statcounter experienced a breach on November 3, according to research from malware researcher Matthieu Faou. Up to 700,000 web pages were targeted in the hack which primarily aimed to steal cryptocurrency through a malicious script. Per the report, through the script was loaded on many websites, there is nothing much to fear. The malicious Statcounter script behind the attack primarily targeted the cryptocurrency exchange Gate.io to generate Bitcoin addresses. Only if the URL or content in a given webpage contained references to “myaccount/withdraw/BTC” would the malicious script activate and then silently connect to the exchange to fill the hackers’ pockets with money."

See more: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/statcounter-700000-websites-hacked-cryptocurrency/



this time hacking is more focused on getting assets in the form of bitcoin or other coins, if this continues, what happens is that the price of the hacked coin can fall due to the amount of instant sell or sell orders even in separate markets