I think this is the scariest thing that has come out in recent bitcoin history.
"Coinhive, as a technology, is only ten days old, being officially launched on September 14.
Despite this, Coinhive has been recently adopted by a large number of malware operations, such as malvertisers, adware developers, rogue Chrome extensions, and website hackers, who secretly load the code in a page's background and make money off unsuspecting users.
At least two ad blockers have added support for blocking Coinhive's JS library — AdBlock Plus and AdGuard — and developers have also put together Chrome extensions that terminate anything that looks like Coinhive's mining script — AntiMiner, No Coin, and minerBlock."
Source: bleepingcomputer.com (link above)
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