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Popular Chrome extension is secretly mining cryptocurrency
Popular Chrome extension is secretly mining cryptocurrency
https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/6EeavxlY8vt...255682410f.jpghttps://a.amz.mshcdn.com/assets/feed...8be198fb13.jpghttps://a.amz.mshcdn.com/assets/feed...6a4ca77139.jpg 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 — but a cryptojacking program has recently been found in a popular Chrome extension.* SEE ALSO: The top 10 tech stories of 2017 BleepingComputer reports that Archive Poster, 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... More about Google, Cryptocurrency, Monero, Cryptojacking, and Techhttps://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gam...0&c=1514585272 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/RJWrhHxn6IU |
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