"Ghost Blogging Platform Servers Hacked to Mine Cryptocurrency"

A popular blogging platform called Ghost has recently discovered that adversaries gained access to its IT infrastructure and installed cryptocurrency-mining malware on it.  The intrusion occurred in the early hours of May 3rd and affected Ghost(Pro) websites and the platform's billing services.  Ghost stated that there is no direct evidence to corroborate that any private customer data, including credit card information, passwords, or credentials, were compromised.  When the company discovered the malware, they immediately introduced a set of security measures to combat the breach, such as cycling all sessions, passwords, and keys on all of the affected services, and adding extra firewalls.  

WeLiveSecurity reports: "Ghost Blogging Platform Servers Hacked to Mine Cryptocurrency"

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