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This Chrome Extension is Mining Cryptocurrency Secretly Through Your Computer

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Hitesh Mahawari
This Chrome Extension is Mining Cryptocurrency Secretly Through Your Computer

If you don’t know what is Cryptojacking, let’s throw some light on it: It is a way of secretly using the resources of a computer to mine cryptocurrency without letting the user know about it.

Everyone is trying to be the part of the rising cryptocurrencies, even though many of the cryptocurrencies are still volatile.

One of the popular chrome extensions called Archive Poster which is used by the Tumblr users to repost from the other blogs has been caught for using conhive to mine ‘Monero’ by cryptojacking.

The answer is; Whenever your Chrome browser is running it will work secretly behind the scene.

 

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