The News Of Tomorrow, Today
The News Of Tomorrow, Today
Monero
Tom McKay
Thousands of websites including ones run by the US and UK governments secretly hijacked browsers to mine cryptocurrency thanks to a compromised plugin.
It’s one thing to wake up and discover that you missed the boat on a cryptocurrency boom that’s making a handful of people very wealthy. It’s another thing to find out that your computer is making someone else rich while it gives you poor performance and jacks up your electricity…
This past weekend, the popular torrenting site The Pirate Bay caught some flak for testing out a new system that used visitors’ CPU power to generate cryptocurrency profits for itself. This tactic has been around for years, but the high profile implementation signals that it’s probably time to start blocking…
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