Surreptitious cryptocurrency miners hide on Politifact and hundreds of other sites

23:05 13.10.2017
Politifact is the latest and perhaps most high-profile website to host code that secretly hijacks visitors’ CPUs to mine cryptocurrency. Driven by a boom in cryptocoin value and a lack of protections against Javascript routines like this one, this surprising form of audience monetization is now found on hundreds of sites. Read More...
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