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D-Link MEA Site Caught Running Cryptocurrency Mining Script—Or Was It Hacked?
2017-11-01 06:31

Last month the popular torrent website The Pirate Bay caused some uproar by adding a Javascript-based cryptocurrency miner to its site with no opt-out option, utilizing visitors' CPU power to mine Monero coins in an attempt to gain an extra source of revenue. Now D-Link has been caught doing the same, although there's high chance that its website has been hacked. D-Link's official website


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