Online ad firm Adform’s script compromised to steal cryptocurrency

BleepingComputer by Bill Toulas 1 August 2026, 00:09 EEST Security

Online advertising firm Adform suffered a supply-chain attack that delivered cryptocurrency-stealing scripts to websites using its ad platform, replacing wallet addresses copied to visitors' clipboards with ones controlled by an attacker.

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