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Over 500 Million PCs Are Secretly Mining Cryptocurrency

 
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 3:26 pm    Post subject: Over 500 Million PCs Are Secretly Mining Cryptocurrency Reply with quote

AdGuard has found a total of 220 sites that launch mining when a user opens their main page, with an aggregated audience of 500 million people. 220 sites may not seem like a lot. but CoinHive was launched less than one month ago on September 14th. Their joint profit has been estimated at over US $43,000, and this money has been ...read more
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