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12-30-2017, 06:01 AM
Popular Chrome extension is secretly mining cryptocurrency
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Have you heard of cryptojacking? It's the practice of secretly using your computer's resources to mine cryptocurrency without the user's permission.*
Typically, you'll see the practice on shady websites — popular Bittorrent site The Pirate Bay appears to have experimented with it at one point (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/psa-the-pirate-bay-is-running-an-in-browser-cryptocurrency-miner-with-no-opt-out/) — but a cryptojacking program has recently been found in a popular Chrome extension.*
SEE ALSO: The top 10 tech stories of 2017 (http://mashable.com/2017/12/19/top-10-tech-stories-2017/)
BleepingComputer (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chrome-extension-with-100-000-users-caught-pushing-cryptocurrency-miner/) reports that Archive Poster (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/archive-poster/ceakpicibkmdilicebgddflnfbpmcpgd/), a Chrome extension that helps Tumblr users reblog and repost from other blogs, also runs Coinhive, a cryptojacking program that secretly mines the cryptocurrency Monero using your CPU.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/29/chrome-extension-cryptojacking/)
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Have you heard of cryptojacking? It's the practice of secretly using your computer's resources to mine cryptocurrency without the user's permission.*
Typically, you'll see the practice on shady websites — popular Bittorrent site The Pirate Bay appears to have experimented with it at one point (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/psa-the-pirate-bay-is-running-an-in-browser-cryptocurrency-miner-with-no-opt-out/) — but a cryptojacking program has recently been found in a popular Chrome extension.*
SEE ALSO: The top 10 tech stories of 2017 (http://mashable.com/2017/12/19/top-10-tech-stories-2017/)
BleepingComputer (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chrome-extension-with-100-000-users-caught-pushing-cryptocurrency-miner/) reports that Archive Poster (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/archive-poster/ceakpicibkmdilicebgddflnfbpmcpgd/), a Chrome extension that helps Tumblr users reblog and repost from other blogs, also runs Coinhive, a cryptojacking program that secretly mines the cryptocurrency Monero using your CPU.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/29/chrome-extension-cryptojacking/)
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