Colleagues,
the world’s thirty-eight largest crypto exchange Gate.io was successfully
hacked via the injection of code into StatCounter’s
URI “myaccount/withdraw/BTC”. Reported by security
firm ESET WeLiveSecurity
indicated that although Gate.io is the only known crypto exchange effected, all
of StatCounter’s some 2 million customer sites are at risk. For readers with a
programming background the code was injected via the Dean Edwards JS packer in
the middle of the script. We assume that economic gain is the chief motive
although the ESET report did not provide corroborating details. This cyber-attack
raises two questions. First, how susceptible are URIs (uniform
resource identifiers) to injections via the Dean Edwards packer? And second, how
many more web sites which use StatCounter – a competitor to Google Analytics –
are effected? We will continue to research answers to both questions. Share a comment today! Lawrence – Cryptocurrency
Academy (https://cryptocurrencyacademy.blogspot.com/)
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