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Hacked website/forums
01-25-2018, 03:54 PM
Bob,
I've been on your homepage and the forums, and Symantic/Norton is having to block the Bitcoin miner javascript.
Norton is showing PUA.JSCoinminer when accessing both the homepage and the forums. The files are coinhive.min[1].js and worker-asmjs.min[1].js
I still get near 80% CPU usage even with Symantic/Noton blocking them, but fortunately when I close the tab(s) to your pages it stops.
I am about to clear my cache and reattempt accessing your pages...
..And it still happens.
I will be sending this post via email.
Yours Sincerely,
Cobalt
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RE: Hacked website/forums
01-25-2018, 04:10 PM
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But words can break your heart.
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RE: Hacked website/forums
01-25-2018, 04:41 PM
It may not be a false alarm. A quick look with Chrome's developer tools does in fact show coinhive somehow being called by my top page. I suspect one of the off-site widgets is might be compromised, as I have almost no javascript in my site otherwise (just the random headlines on the DW pages).
As soon as I get home tonight I'll kill those links and reupload the home page, and see if that makes a difference.
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RE: Hacked website/forums
01-25-2018, 06:17 PM
I posted in the other thread...
...not sure if it's helpful or not,m but it's what I found
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.
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RE: Hacked website/forums
01-25-2018, 06:43 PM
It was indeed very helpful.
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RE: Hacked website/forums
01-26-2018, 03:54 PM
OK, I'm glad to say that currently I am no longer (as of this post, and with a couple of cache clean ups) getting alerts about coinminer in the main page and the forums.
(This message will also be placed in the forums thread)