Tag Archives: StatCounter

[ad_1] This week, the hijacking of the StatCounter JavaScript code to let Bitcoin flow from a cryptocurrency exchange was the result of a web cache poisoning attack, it seems. The cyber-abduction, in which a malicious snippet of JavaScript code was inserted into the StatCounter tracking script, that websites embed on …

[ad_1] Hackers violated StatCounter, one of the largest web analytics platforms on the Internet, and inserted malicious code into the company's main site tracking script. According to Matthieu Faou, the ESET malware researcher who discovered the hack, this malicious code hijack any Bitcoin transaction carried out through the web interface …