Blackberry website hacked to mine monero

In these weeks we have seen how some websites are hacked and mine cryptocurrencies during that time. The latest victim of this has been the Blackberry Mobile website. The latest victim of this type of attack, which has been made possible again thanks to a CoinHive mining tool that was embedded in the site's code.

BlackBerry website hacked to mine Monero

It has been a user on Reddit who has discovered that this had happened. So the company has also been informed about this problem. In addition, after a few hours the code had already been removed from the web. So the main danger has passed. Although it is not known how many people have been affected or the money that hackers have obtained.

Hacking on the BlackBerry website

CoinHive has responded to the user who reported the events on Reddit (who later deleted their account) that they felt that their service had been used for these purposes. In addition to revealing the possible origin of this problem. Since they believe that they could have taken advantage of a security problem in the software of the Magento web store.

BlackBerry has not reacted at any time. Something that is strange, although it seems that the company has managed to solve the existing security problem. But, nothing is known about how many Monero units have been mined in this time.

We are seeing more and more hacks on websites that later mine cryptocurrencies using users' CPUs. The BlackBerry is one more example. But it is becoming too common. They all have in common that CoinHive was the medium used.