Security News > 2020 > March > Cryptojacking is almost conquered – crushed along with Coinhive
Cryptojacking may not be entirely dead following the shutdown of a notorious cryptomining service, but it isn't very healthy, according to a paper released this week.
Coinhive provided Monero cryptomining scripts for use on websites, retaining 30% of the funds for itself.
It showed up on large numbers of cryptomining and cryptojacking sites.
Given Coinhive's popularity, how prevalent is cryptojacking now? That's what researchers at the University of Cincinnati and Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada explored in their paper, called Is Cryptojacking Dead after Coinhive Shutdown?
Manual checks on a subset of the sites found that a significant proportion were still running Coinhive scripts that were trying to connect to the operation's dead servers.