Crypto-Mining Malware has Affected U.S and UK Governments Websites

The Register reported that thousands of websites, which are driven by U.S and UK government agencies were affected for so many hours on Sunday with code which causes the web browsers secretly mine cryptocurrencies.

More than 4,200 websites were infected with a malicious version which is used by a huge number of people called as Browsealoud from British software maker Texthelp, which holds the websites for people with vision problems.

Meanwhile, in recent times, the number trading in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has increased and also the increase in cyber attacks using software which forces the infected computers to mine cryptocurrencies on behalf of the hackers.

The infected version of Browsealoud made the inserted software for mining the digital currency Monero to run on computers and it visited the infected sites and also generated money for the hackers behind the attack.

Representatives of the U.S. and British law enforcement agencies and texthelp couldn’t immediately reply for any comment.

Reports say that texthelp has shut down the operation by disabling Browsealoud while its engineering team investigated.

Recently, there was news that Russian Nuclear Lab Scientists got Arrested for Mining Cryptocurrencies.