{"id":249385,"date":"2018-02-20T08:53:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T06:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=249385"},"modified":"2018-02-20T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T06:55:41","slug":"website-with-crypto-mining-malware-makes-it-to-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/249385-website-with-crypto-mining-malware-makes-it-to-wikipedia.html","title":{"rendered":"Website with crypto-mining malware makes it to Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sucuri has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.sucuri.net\/2018\/02\/wikipedia-page-review-revealed-minr-malware.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a><\/strong> seeing several new infections of WordPress sites by Minr cryptocurrency-mining malware.<\/p>\n<p>Minr uses almost all the CPU power of a victim&#8217;s PC to mine Monero for the attackers.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a Wikipedia editor reviewing sources added to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Feminist_views_on_transgender_topics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a\u00a0Wikipedia entry<\/a><\/strong> which linked to a site infected with the malware at the start of February.<\/p>\n<p>Sucuri said it is seeing a variety of &#8220;creative approaches&#8221; by malware authors to infect websites with cryptocurrency mining scripts.<\/p>\n<p>Examples include CoinHive injections, hidden iframes within public repositories on GitHub, infections in Drupal and Magento, and the use of old infections to distribute mining malware.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To protect your web assets from the creativity of bad actors&#8230; employ file integrity monitoring on your websites,&#8221; said Sucuri.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will help you detect malware injection, spam, defacements, database errors, and downtime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/228713-crypto-mining-botnets-have-returned.html\">Crypto-mining botnets have returned<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sucuri has reported new infections of WordPress sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":244470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[32820,4696,9647],"class_list":["post-249385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-sucuri","tag-wikipedia","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249399,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249385\/revisions\/249399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}