With the popularity of cryptocurrencies on the rise and value increasing, A current trend is injecting some malicious code into websites by unscrupulous webmasters and blackhats using JavaScript cryptocurrency miners. Suncuri blog takes a look into one of the more popular platforms being used, CoinHive which have been stealing precious cpu cycles from unsuspecting website visitors.



While the cryptocurrency miners for websites is a very new thing, there is nothing new in approaches that hackers use to abuse it. If something can be installed on a web site and monetized, hackers will do it on websites they compromise. Thus one of the best security practices for webmasters is to monitor integrity of their sites.

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