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The Pirate Bay last month surprised many by using visitors' CPUs for mining Monero without alerting them. The internet was soon in a frenzy over the operators of the m ost visited torrent site in the ...

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Over the weekend, a user on Twitter pointed out that two of Showtime’s websites had a script running in the background that’s used to hijack visitors’ CPUs to mine cryptocurrency. Other users and ...

As someone who has professionally mined cryptocurrency in the past and helped set up hundreds of mining rigs (including CPU, GPU, and SSD/HDD-based options). So, I can help provide insights on your ...