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Cryptojacking Script Found in Live Help Widget, Impacts Around 1,500 Sites

24th November 2017 By Catalin Cimpanu

 

Security is a round-the-clock affair. Instead of spending Thanksgiving with family and friends, Las Vegas-based security researcher Troy Mursch was busy all day digging into the code of hundreds of websites to discover the source of a massive cryptojacking campaign that was set in motion today.

 

Speaking to Bleeping Computer, Mursch said he found a copy of the Coinhive in-browser cryptocurrency miner inside one of the JavaScript files used by LiveHelpNow, a live chat and support widget that was being loaded on the sites he investigated.

 

Coinhive via LiveHelpNow widget on Everlast website

 

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