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The value of Bitcoin is increasing rapidly making it almost impossible for most of the world to invest and that is why users are trying to invest or mine other currencies including Monero digital coin which is around USD 265. Starbucks and CoinHive code On December 2nd, a Twitter user Noah Dinkin sent out a screenshot that showed […]
WordPress is one of the most used platforms in the world with more than 75 million websites using its content management system (CMS), and that is good enough reason for hackers to target WordPress-based websites. Old malware new capabilities Recently, researchers at website security platform Sucuri discovered that 5,500 WordPress websites are infected with malware that was initially […]
Coinhive offers a JavaScript miner for the Monero Blockchain that you can embed in your website. Your users run the miner directly in their Browser and mine XMR for you in turn for an ad-free experience, in-game currency or whatever incentives you can come up with. Features Spam Protection Rate limit actions on your site […]
It is very usual these days to find many applications having a hidden crypto-mining module. But the recent trend is more mainstream and is done via web pages. Yes, now websites have started doing crypto-mining and are done totally in the background, all thanks to Coinhive. To note, we have already reported about the beginning […]
What is Cryptojacking? With the rise in the adoption of cryptocurrencies all around the world, the foul players on the web are also exploiting this opportunity to earn fraudulent clicks. In the past few months, we have told you about different websites and browser extensions using Coinhive miners to use your CPU power without notifying you; […]
Yet another lesson in how not to secure your network. Coinhive has admitted to a security breach leading to hackers hijacking cryptocurrency mining scripts on legitimate websites. The cryptocurrency mining software provider said this week that at approximately 10 pm GMT on Monday, the firm received a note from its DNS provider, Cloudflare which warned Coinhive that […]