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

submitted 3 years ago by 111@zerobytes.monster to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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[+] Truck_kun@beehaw.org 6 points 3 years ago

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