*On 14 March 2018, evidence of cryptocurrency mining software was discovered on Persian Wikipedia. It was identified by the community and removed within 10 minutes of being added to the site. Additionally, the rights of the user responsible have been revoked and their account has been globally locked. At this time there is no evidence of any user's computer or account being compromised or otherwise affected. However, we encourage everyone to take some routine steps to maintain a secure computer and account - including regularly changing your passwords, actively running antivirus software on your systems, and keeping your system software up to date. The Wikimedia Foundation's Security team is investigating this incident as well as potential improvements to prevent future incidents. If you have any questions, please contact the Security team (security-team{{@}}wikimedia.org http://wikimedia.org/). Apologies for only posting in English, translating and reposting in Fārsi would be greatly appreciated.Thanks,John Bennett*
How many external (non WMF-sites) js do we need?
Vito
2018-03-15 0:28 GMT+01:00 John Bennett jbennett@wikimedia.org:
*On 14 March 2018, evidence of cryptocurrency mining software was discovered on Persian Wikipedia. It was identified by the community and removed within 10 minutes of being added to the site. Additionally, the rights of the user responsible have been revoked and their account has been globally locked. At this time there is no evidence of any user's computer or account being compromised or otherwise affected. However, we encourage everyone to take some routine steps to maintain a secure computer and account - including regularly changing your passwords, actively running antivirus software on your systems, and keeping your system software up to date. The Wikimedia Foundation's Security team is investigating this incident as well as potential improvements to prevent future incidents. If you have any questions, please contact the Security team (security-team{{@}}wikimedia.org http://wikimedia.org/). Apologies for only posting in English, translating and reposting in Fārsi would be greatly appreciated.Thanks,John Bennett* _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Translated and posted in Persian Wikipedia's WP:VP. [0] Posting the translation here, in case it would be useful:
«در ۱۴ مارس ۲۰۱۸، اسنادی از استفاده از نرم‌افزار استخراج پول مجازی در ویکی‌پدیای فارسی کشف شد. این کشف توسط جامعه کاربران اتفاق افتاد و در کمتر از ده دقیقه بعد از اضافه شدن به وب‌گاه حذف گردید. علاوه بر آن، دسترسی‌های کاربر مسئول حذف و حسابش سراسری بسته شد. تاکنون هیچ مدرکی دال بر به خطر افتادن حساب یا رایانه کاربری وجود ندارد. اما ما همگان را به انجام فعالیت‌های معمول برای داشتن رایانه و حساب امن توصیه می‌کنیم که شامل تغییر مداوم گذرواژه‌تان، استفاده فعالانه از نرم‌افزارهای ضدویروس، و بروزنگه‌داشتن سامانه‌تان است. تیم امنیت بنیاد ویکی‌مدیا در حال بررسی این اتفاق و بررسی پتانسیل‌های بهبود برای جلوگیری از وقوع موارد مشابه در آینده است. اگر سوالی داشتید لطفا با تیم امنیت (security-team[image: @]wikimedia.org < http://wikimedia.org/%3E) تماس بگیرید. عذرخواهی برای فرستادن به انگلیسی، ترجمه آن به فارسی مزید امتنان خواهد بود. تشکر، جان بنت.»
[0] https://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=22372929#%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7...
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:29 AM John Bennett jbennett@wikimedia.org wrote:
*On 14 March 2018, evidence of cryptocurrency mining software was discovered on Persian Wikipedia. It was identified by the community and removed within 10 minutes of being added to the site. Additionally, the rights of the user responsible have been revoked and their account has been globally locked. At this time there is no evidence of any user's computer or account being compromised or otherwise affected. However, we encourage everyone to take some routine steps to maintain a secure computer and account - including regularly changing your passwords, actively running antivirus software on your systems, and keeping your system software up to date. The Wikimedia Foundation's Security team is investigating this incident as well as potential improvements to prevent future incidents. If you have any questions, please contact the Security team (security-team{{@}}wikimedia.org http://wikimedia.org/). Apologies for only posting in English, translating and reposting in Fārsi would be greatly appreciated.Thanks,John Bennett* _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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