Infected WordPress Site Reveals Malicious C&C Script (blog.sucuri.net)

Cryptomining infections accounted for less than 4% of total detections last year. Despite the fact that CoinHive – one of the most popular JavaScript based miners – shut down its operations in 2019, we still find occasional infections on compromised environments during remote and server-side scans.

Let’s take a look at what we found during a recent investigation.