{"id":238377,"date":"2026-06-05T02:14:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/hola-browser-for-windows-compromised-to-deliver-cryptominer"},"modified":"2026-06-05T02:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:14:43","slug":"hola-browser-for-windows-compromised-to-deliver-cryptominer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/hola-browser-for-windows-compromised-to-deliver-cryptominer","title":{"rendered":"Hola Browser for Windows compromised to deliver cryptominer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hola-browser-for-windows-compromised-to-deliver-cryptominer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Windows version of the Hola Browser has been compromised in a supply chain attack that delivered an undeclared executable identified by researchers as a cryptocurrency miner.<\/p>\n<p>The compromise was uncovered during periodic certification checks on Hola Browser as part of its AppEsteem certification testing procedure, which it had previously passed.<\/p>\n<p>Hola is an Israeli company best known for Hola VPN, a service that allows users to route internet traffic through other users\u2019 devices or through paid proxy infrastructure to bypass geographic restrictions and access content from different countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows version of the Hola Browser has been compromised in a supply chain attack that delivered an undeclared executable identified by researchers as a cryptocurrency miner. The compromise was uncovered during periodic certification checks on Hola Browser as part of its AppEsteem certification testing procedure, which it had previously passed. Hola is an Israeli [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}