Areport from ZDNet has highlighted that some notorious hackers have been able to breach two services designed for websites. As a result, they’ve infected more than 4,600 websites with malicious code. The two services in question are open source Alpaca Forms and analytics service Picreel. These attacks were first spotted by security researcher Willem de Groot.
As told to ZDNet, Cloud CMS has intervened and disabled the CDN that was serving the notorious script.
For a better understanding of the risk, let me briefly tell you about the infected projects. The open source Alpaca Forms lets one create interactive HTML5 forms for mobile apps and the web. It makes use of JSON Schema and Handlebars to help you create forms easily.
On the other hand, Picreel tracks the interactions made by website visitors by keeping an eye on their scrolls and mouse movements in real-time. With this data, the website owners can trigger targeted offers and collect leads.
Supply chain attack of the week: @Picreel_— Willem de Groot (@gwillem) May 12, 2019
marketing software got hacked last night, their 1200+ customer sites are now leaking data to an exfil server in Panama.
Victims: https://t.co/0qJX6LGEdG
Decoded malware: https://t.co/ZiuhUBP3cf pic.twitter.com/X9uDIctYa9
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