Starbucks Wi-Fi hijacked customers’ laptops to mine cryptocoins | #Coinhive #CryptoMining #CryptoCurrency #CyberSecurity #Monero  | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
From nakedsecurity.sophos.com - December 15, 2017 1:34 PM
What would you like with your latte? Cocoa? Cinnamon? Sprinkle of cryptocurrency mining piggybacking off your free Wi-Fi?

Recent visitors to a Buenos Aires Starbucks didn’t actually have a choice: instead, a 10-second delay was foisted on them when they connected to the coffee shop’s “free” Wi-Fi, as their laptops’ power secretly went to mine cryptocoins (of which the Starbucks customers received nary one slim dime, of course).

The mining was noticed by Stensul CEO Noah Dinkin, who took to Twitter on 2 December to ask Starbucks if it was aware of what was going on. He included a screenshot of the code.

Dinkin said in his tweet that the code was mining bitcoins, but it was actually CoinHive code, which offers a JavaScript miner for generating a cryptocurrency called Monero that’s an alternative to Bitcoin.

 

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