The Pirate Bay website quietly runs a cryptocurrency miner on visitors' PCs, gobbling up CPU cycles | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
From www.grahamcluley.com - September 18, 2017 12:05 PM
The Pirate Bay surprised many of its users when it quietly added a JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miner to its website.

 

In the meantime, users to The Pirate Bay can block the miner using an extension like NoScript.

 

We can only hope they'll also think twice before accessing illegal content.

 

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