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 — but a cryptojacking program has recently been found in a
Popular Chrome extension.*
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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.*
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