Unhappy Pirates? How Pirate Bay Used Visitor’s Processors to Mine Bitcoins
The Pirate Bay recently caused havoc among its users when it introduced a new JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miner on its website. The miner, which was first detected by TorrentFreak, significantly hiked up users’ CPU threads by allocating a major chunk of their processing power to mining activities. Later reports revealed that the CPU surge had resulted …
Unhappy Pirates? How Pirate Bay Used Visitor’s Processors to Mine Bitcoins Read More »