Cryptojacking is spreading dangerously, use your cpu to mine

Cryptojacking is a new phenomenon that has been popularized by ThePirateBay and consisting of a Javascript-based cryptodynamic miner found on various websites. What it does is use the CPU of the users to mine during the time they spend visiting the website in question. This phenomenon would be becoming popular and there would already be thousands of websites that implement it.

Cryptojacking is spreading

This practice of cryptojacking can provide websites that implement it with economic benefits, so in theory it could serve to eliminate advertising. A practice that in principle has nothing wrong as long as users are warned and fully aware that their processor is being used to mine and thereby finance the medium, only for as long as they remain in said medium. Others were adamant against the idea that intense internet browsing through multiple tabs could cause computers to crash, and that this practice could have a more than tangible impact on electricity bills.

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According to ArsTechnica, there could be at least 2, 500 websites with integrated cryptodynamics miners hidden from users. Willem de Groot, an independent cybersecurity researcher estimates that cryptojacking miners may have proliferated to 2, 496 websites, and their adoption is on the rise. At the heart of the controversy is Coinhive, a company that sells easy-to-integrate cryptocurrency miners that can be integrated into websites as a source of income.

A worrying trend because blogs that do not reveal that they have embedded miners can reduce the credibility of the blogging platform they are based on, for example Wordpress and Blogger. This would cause readers to avoid pop-up blogs as they would fear running into hidden miners.

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