Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-09-25 00:00:00
Affected organization: showtimeanytime.com
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts,Internal Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Two Showtime domains are found serving Coinhive, a JavaScript library that mines Monero using the CPU resources of users visiting Showtime's websites. It is not clear if the event is the consegue of a hack or an experiment.