Attackers installed Coinhive code to mine Monroe on the official BlackBerry Moblie website
Such as Bitcoin some encryption monetary value soared, attracted cybercriminals interest molecule. The number of incidents and cyber-attacks involving miners and mining scripts is on the rise, with the recent move to the Blackberry official website. The reason for the invasion is said to be because of Magento e-commerce software vulnerability.
On January 6, a Reddit user, nicknamed “Rundvleeskroket,” claimed that the official BlackBerry Website was discovered and used Coinhive’s cryptocurrency code to monetize Moner ‘s Monroe. Rundvleeskroket writes that his friend pointed out that the blackberrymobile.com was injected with the Coinhive mining code.
“A friend of mine just pointed this out to me.
Have a look at the source code on their pages. This is an official site where BB links to themselves from their product pages at blackberry.com.Image.” he wrote.
Update: It seems that only their global website is affected. Therefore, anyone who is redirected to CA, EU, US and other countries will not be affected by the coinhive miner and the site is open. Reddit users also share the following screenshot:
BlackBerry mobile site has deleted the Coinhive code, unfortunately, this attack is becoming more frequent. In many cases, website owners are using CoinHive code to generate Monero Monroe using the computational resources of unknown visitors.
Source: securityaffairs