A Surge Of Sites And Apps Are Exhausting Your CPU To Mine Cryptocurrency
Noticed your machine getting slow after visiting certain websites? They could be running cryptocurrency miners in your browser. <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/a-surge-of-sites-and-apps-are-exhausting-your-cpu-to-mine-cryptocurrency/>: Coinhive's massive Web audience isn't lost on other companies. Collin Mulliner, a security researcher and developer of TelStop, said he recently received an e-mail from a startup called Medsweb inviting him to integrate a Monero miner into his creation. I got one of those e-mails too...
On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:13:38 +1300, I wrote:
Noticed your machine getting slow after visiting certain websites? They could be running cryptocurrency miners in your browser.
A researcher has tallied close to 2,500 sites doing this sort of thing now--seemingly without the knowledge or consent of their owners. <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/drive-by-cryptomining-that-drains-cpus-picks-up-steam-with-aid-of-2500-sites/>
On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:13:38 +1300, I wrote:
Noticed your machine getting slow after visiting certain websites? They could be running cryptocurrency miners in your browser.
And of course, with the old pop-under trick <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/sneakier-more-persistent-drive-by-cryptomining-comes-to-a-browser-near-you/>, you may not even notice that there is a window still open and running the miner after you thought you’d closed the window to that site ... I don’t think this trick would work for me. I am rather fond of Compiz and its OpenGL-based animation effects. One of the effects I have turned on is windows moving temporarily to the side as other windows come to the front. This animation makes pop-unders rather noticeable ...
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