The in-browser cryptojacking craze that has taken over the Internet is getting worse by the day and more and more sites are implementing such systems, intentionally or after getting hacked.
Malwarebytes, one of the first major antivirus companies that have added support for blocking such scripts has recently released a report detailing statistics from the last month.
According to the Malwarebytes team, Malwarebytes products have blocked on average around 8 million requests per day to domains hosting in-browser cryptocurrency mining scripts.
In total, the company says it blocked nearly 248 million requests during the entire month of October 2017, and most of these requests were for Coinhive, today's most popular in-browser Monero mining service.
special proxy services have popped up online that allow some website operators to evade ad blockers and antivirus solutions by tunneling Coinhive requests through other domains.
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Chrome extension called No Coin, created by developer Rafael Keramidas, that blocks Coinhive mining and is adding protection against other miners, too.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...cgmbgjcl?hl=en
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Beware browser extensions - do your research before adding - if your CPU is over heating
try starting in safe mode with extensions disabled and you'll soon know if an existing one
has gone rogue intentionally or by hackers
The authors of SafeBrowse, a Chrome extension with more than 140,000 users, have embedded a JavaScript library in the extension's code that mines for the Monero cryptocurrency using users' computers and without getting their consent.
UPDATE : The SafeBrowse team has provided Bleeping Computer the following statement regarding the extension's recent Monero mining capabilities.
Unfortunately we have no knowledge, apparently has been a hack. I'm currently researching, I have already contacted the Google team. The extension has not received an update for months, so I do not know what it's all about.
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