ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

A Chrome browser extension, with over 140,000 users, is gobbling up the resources of users’ computers by secretly mining for virtual cash.

The SafeBrowse plugin claims to let you surf the web without the nuisance of wasting time, waiting for annoying advertising pop-ups to disappear so you can, for instance, get your hands on a free download.

What you may not realise, however, is how SafeBrowse’s authors are planning to make money out of your use of their ostensibly “free” tool. That’s because the browser extension automatically mines for digital cryptocurrencies as it runs in your background.

 

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=crypto-currency

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=cryptocurrency+mining