Description
TL;DR: A period report on the Browsealoud supply-chain compromise that turned public-sector web visits into unauthorized mining activity.
About This Document
Tomáš Foltýn describes an incident affecting more than 4,200 sites, including government pages in the United Kingdom and United States. Attackers modified a third-party accessibility script so visitors' browsers performed cryptocurrency mining, illustrating how one shared dependency could spread abuse across many unrelated organizations.
Why Bitcoin People May Care
The incident involved browser mining and supply-chain compromise, not an attack on Bitcoin's consensus protocol. It is useful because it connects cryptocurrency incentives with ordinary web security failures. The article reflects February 2018 reporting and is not a complete forensic postmortem, attribution finding, or current defense guide.
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Document Details
- Title: Cryptocurrency Mining Attack on Government Websites — 2018 Report
- Author / organization: Tomáš Foltýn
- Year: 2018
- Language: English
- Document type: Archived cybersecurity news article
- Pages: 3
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