Cryptocurrency mining malware is gaining popularity among hackers. Attackers are now using GitHub repositories and other well-known repositories for storing and serving the malicious code. On GitHub, the free accounts are being created to commit the obfuscated code and to use it in the injection later. The encrypted infection usually disguises itself as a legitimate jQuery or other familiar library files. It looks like in 2018 this new security threat -
cryptojacking is here to stay. With the explosion of the cryptocurrency, it will become a significant part of the global web malware landscape. We expect that cyber-criminals will continue
hijacking websites and visitors' systems to exploit them as the free power and computing resources.
Let's have a look at the code that was recently detected by
ThreatSign website security monitoring and later appeared to be another cryptocurrency mining infection.