Sentences with phrase «website is using coinhive»

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It was first brought into the limelight by a group of infosec researchers, at Sucuri according to them it's a cryptocurrency malicious script and a keylogger from Coinhive (a web - based service that provides website owners to embed java scripts on their website to use the resources of its site visitors to mine cryptocurrency) that runs in the background of admin pages on their interface which not only utilises the hardware resources of the users but also logs every keystrokes of the visitors.

Coinhive is one such service, taking the limelight for being involved in several crypto - jacking cases, where bad actors hacked legitimate websites and used their traffic to fatten their personal crypto... (continued)

Coinhive states that website owners may get rid of all ads on their site, load the Coinhive and mine Monero using a tiny portion the user's CPU during the time he / she is visiting the website.