Browser Mining Spreading Rapidly, 500 Million Computers Affected

In September, users of The Pirate Bay discovered that the popular torrent site was running Coinhive, a javascript code that mines Monero (XMR) on visitor’s computers. The incident brought to light the use of such scripts, which are growing in use globally across the web. Although not as malicious as traditional malware, these mining scripts use a computer’s CPU without the owner’s consent, a practice that has been termed “cryptojacking.”
The proliferation of mining