Security News > 2018 > January > How to make public Wi-Fi users mine cryptocurrency for you

Covertly roping unsuspecting users’ machines into mining cryptocurrency is a dream for many aspiring cryptocurrency owners, and some of them set aside ethical considerations and work on making that dream come true. Compromising computers and websites and saddling them with mining software or cryptojacking scripts are the two most commonly used approaches. Another method, discovered last month in a Starbucks in Buenos Aires, consists of injecting mining code in pages served to users of free, … More →

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