Chrome Extension with 100,000 Users Caught Pushing Cryptocurrency Miner

Chrome Extension with 100,000 Users Caught Pushing Cryptocurrency Miner Published on December 29, 2017 at 03:00PM Catalin Cimpanu, reporting for BleepingComputer: A Chrome extension with over 105,000 users has been deploying an in-browser cryptocurrency miner to unsuspecting users for the past few weeks. The extension does not ask for user permission before hijacking their CPUs …

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