In a report detailing statistics from the last month, Malwarebytes claims that its products blocked on average of around 8 million requests per day to domains hosting in-browser cryptocurrency mining scripts. In total, the company says it blocked nearly 248 million requests during the entire month of October 2017, and most of these requests were for Coinhive, today’s most popular in-browser Monero mining service.



The number of actual users affected by this plague is most likely much higher. This is because Malwarebytes does not block Coinhive and similar scripts by default but prompts the user via a popup, letting users select what they want to do. In addition, not all Internet users utilize the Malwarebytes antivirus, which means the real number of requests to mining scripts is most likely in the realm of tens of millions of requests per day.

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