The JavaScript miner runs inside the app's built-in browser but it gives no indication to the user that the miner is running. Trend Micro notes that the phone's CPU usage will be "exceptionally ...

Within hours, security researcher Chase Dardaman figured out a way to use Microsoft's new feature to load the CoinHive in-browser miner through a custom JavaScript Excel function.

In addition to Coinhive impacting more than one in five organizations, JSEcoin (a JavaScript miner that can be embedded in websites) was in fifth place and Cryptoloot (which targets PCs) was in ninth.

Cryptojackers are getting resourceful and have figured out how to bypass ad-blocking software and deliver the Coinhive JavaScript miner via browser-based ads. Researchers at Qihoo’s Netlab 360 ...

A security researcher found Coinhive code hidden on a Los Angeles Times’ webpage that was secretly using visitors’ devices to mine cryptocurrency.

The cause of that resource drain is the inclusion of the Coinhive JavaScript Miner, an in-browser implementation of a popular cryptocurrency mining algorithm used to mine for Monero—an open ...

The JavaScript code is a modified version of MineCrunch (also known as Web Miner), a script released in 2014 that can mine cryptocurrencies using JavaScript code executed inside the browser.

NPM is a package manager for the JavaScript programming language. In a blog post, Sophos senior threat researcher Sean Gallagher said the script in question installed a monero miner on Linux ...