{"id":7277,"date":"2018-02-15T01:50:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=7277"},"modified":"2021-08-02T03:47:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T10:47:37","slug":"swedish-police-website-hacked-to-mine-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/swedish-police-website-hacked-to-mine-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Police website hacked to mine cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 125%; font-weight: 600;\">One of the sites hijacked to mine cryptocurrency in the recent script-replacement hack was the website of the Swedish Police Force. This merits a more discussion; a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2018\/02\/11\/browsealoud_compromised_coinhive\/\">reported<\/a> by The Register and many others, the BrowseAloud script was hijacked server-side to mine the Monero cryptocurrency on the computers on all visitors.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a seemingly simple hack: hijack something that a lot of websites include, and you\u2019ve got code running on the computers of the visitors to all those websites. It might not be code that can access their file system, but number-crunching can be profitable enough, it seems. (In a sure disappointment, this particular hack seems to have netted the intruders only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/feb\/14\/cryptojacking-campaign-24-dollars-hackers-cryptocurrency-salon?CMP=share_btn_tw\">about $25<\/a>.) Regardless, it presents a huge security hole and an enormous attack vector to millions of computers, as evident from this event.<\/p>\n<p>And it is this security hole which becomes interesting when you take into account that the websites of major authorities were hacked by a simple server-side include script replacement.<\/p>\n<p>It is not sophisticated at all. It is as lame as replacing an image file that has been hotlinked from another site just to make that site look bad. It can <a href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HotlinkedImageSwitch\">be funny<\/a>, but D-level in terms of sophistication.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, the low degree of sophistication is all the more reason to be aware of the attack vector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remember now, it is a <em>Police Force<\/em> that allowed their website to be hijacked by this simple attack vector. The authority assigned to <em>serve and protect<\/em>. More specifically, the authority that argues that <em>wiretapping is totally safe because the Police is competent<\/em> in IT security matters, so there\u2019s no risk whatsoever your data will leak or be mishandled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This<\/em> is one of the websites that were trivially hacked.<\/p>\n<p>It gives pause for thought.<\/p>\n<p>It also tells you what you already knew: authorities can\u2019t even keep their own dirtiest laundry under wraps, so the notion that they\u2019re capable or even willing to protect <em>your<\/em> sensitive data is hogwash of the highest order.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, did I mention it\u2019s not just about citizen security, but also national security? Yeah, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmv.se\/english\/About-FMV\/\">Swedish Defense Equipment Authority<\/a> <em>(F\u00f6rsvarets Materielverk)<\/em> was also on the <a href=\"https:\/\/publicwww.com\/websites\/browsealoud.com%2Fplus%2Fscripts%2Fba.js\/\">list<\/a> of hacked websites through this simple script replacement hack.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the sites hijacked to mine cryptocurrency in the recent script-replacement hack was the website of the Swedish Police Force. This merits a more discussion; a lot more. As reported by The Register and many others, the BrowseAloud script was hijacked server-side to mine the Monero cryptocurrency on the computers on all visitors. It\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/swedish-police-website-hacked-to-mine-cryptocurrency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swedish Police website hacked to mine cryptocurrency&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12,1,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","category-security","category-news","category-governments"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Swedish Police website hacked to mine cryptocurrency<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Swedish Police website was hijacked to mine cryptocurrency via a simple script swap. 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