The JavaScript miner runs inside the app's built-in browser but it gives no indication to the user that the miner is running.

The Coinhive cryptomining mining service which was designed to offer web developers a JavaScript-based Monero miner announced that it will discontinue its services on March 8, 2019.

While the miner uses resources from the user’s machine, the profits go directly to the authors of SafeBrowse. The Coinhive miner first appeared in version 3.2.25 of the Chrome extension.

Researchers say cyrptojackers are bypassing ad-blocking software in an attempt to run in-browser cyrptocurrency miner Coinhive.

That seems to be the case with The Pirate Bay, which has reportedly added coin miner software to its website which hijacks some of your device's CPU muscle.

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.

Mursch told Threatpost that in the case of the LA Times the miner was throttled so that it had a reduced impact on visitors’ CPUs and would be harder to detect. Typically, cryptojacking attacks ...