Oct 7, 2017
The Pirate Bay is mining cryptocurrency with visitor's CPU
The Pirate Bay is mining cryptocurrency with visitor’s CPU
It has been discovered that torrent site The Pirate Bay has been operating a cryptocurrency miner. The site’s visitors learned that The Pirate Bay exploits a user’s CPU to mine Monero digital coins, through JavaScript code found on the torrent site.
When users browsed specific pages on The Pirate Bay, they found a significant increase in their CPU usage before finding out that a Bitcoin…
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