Crypto Heist: The Aftermath of a Government Website Cryptojacking Attack
Room 3
15:00 - 16:00
(UTC+02)
Talk (60 min)
Wednesday
I uncovered and investigated one of the largest Cryptojacking attacks ever seen, which impacted more than 5,000 websites that we know of. The attack also affected Government Websites all around the World, from the USA to Australia. For such a potentially devastating attack, we're lucky that all the hackers decided to do was mine Cryptocurrency. Just think of all the really evil things that are possible if you were to infect a website with malicious JavaScript. What would you do?
Security
In this talk I'll walk you through the discovery and investigation of the attack, look at how Governments around the World handled their remediation poorly, and discuss how you can stop your website becoming the victim of similar attacks that continue to this day.
Scott Helme
Scott Helme is a security researcher, consultant and international speaker. He can often be found talking about web security and performance online and helping organisations better deploy both.
Founder of report-uri.com, a free CSP report collection service, and securityheaders.com, a free security analyser, Scott has a tendency to always be involved in building something new and exciting.