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1 out of 500 of the one million most visited websites according to Alexa contains a web-based cryptominer that starts mining as soon as the website has been opened in the browser, researchers from the Braunschweig University of Technology have found. Still, despite not being rare, web-based cryptojacking is not hugely lucrative. “Based on the configuration of typical desktop computers and statistics about website visits, we estimate the revenue generated by individual miners in the … More → The post How lucrative is web-based cryptojacking? appeared first on Help Net Security.

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