Friday, January 26, 2018

Its a wonderful (Scary) world (Keylogger in wordpress sites)


What is typed in the forms is sent to the hackers even before the user has clicked on the “log in” button.


Many web surfers almost certainly don’t realise that the reason that their laptop’s fan is running at full blast is because the website they are viewing is tied up with the complex number-crunching necessary to earn the digital currency.

But, in a twist, this particular attack isn’t just interested in mining Monero. While the website’s front-end is digging for cryptocurrencies, the back-end is secretly hosting a keylogger

https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/blog/keylogger-found-on-thousands-of-wordpress-based-sites-stealing-every-keypress-as-you-type-19501.html

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