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This wasn't the first, and it won't be the last. https://twitter.com/imnoah/status/936948776119537665/photo/1 https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/26/16367620/s
by IncRnd 9y ago
This wasn't the first, and it won't be the last.
https://twitter.com/imnoah/status/936948776119537665/photo/1
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/26/16367620/showtime-cpu-cryptocurrency-monero-coinhive
https://wccftech.com/the-pirate-bay-cryptojacking-mine-monero/
https://coinhive.com/
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- minikites 9y agoThere's a Twitter threading site that does this too: https://twitter.com/tttthreads/status/922503320765218816 https://twitter.com/tttthreads/status/922503320765218816
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- IncRnd 9y agoI researched a little more from what you pointed out, and here is a list that I found of pages that load the coin-hive miner, dated Sep 28. https://gist.github.com/PaulSec/029d198a1e049acead74c31db0de1466 https://gist.github.com/PaulSec/029d198a1e049acead74c31db0de... https://twitter.com/paulwebsec/status/913055079112036352?lang=en https://twitter.com/paulwebsec/status/913055079112036352?lan...
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