Billions of video site visitors unwittingly mine cryptocurrency as they watch
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#3AK4V)
Popular sites Openload, Streamango, Rapidvideo and OnlineVideoConverter allegedly force users to mine Monero cryptocurrency, report says
Each month almost one billion visitors to four popular video sites are being unwittingly forced to mine cryptocurrency, according to a report on the practice of so called cryptojacking.
The video sites Openload, Streamango, Rapidvideo and OnlineVideoConverter are allegedly loading mining software on to visitors' computers, making them generate tokens for the bitcoin-like cryptocurrency Monero, according to security firm Adguard.
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