Vietnam warns against threat of cryptocurrency mining malware CoinHive

CoinHive, lurking unseen on websites, taps the processing power of visitors’ computers to mine the cryptocurrency Monero

By Tuoi Tre News November 17, 2017, 16:05 GMT+7
​Vietnam warns against threat of cryptocurrency mining malware CoinHive
A cryptocurrency ‘mining farm’ in Vietnam.
Internet users in Vietnam are being warned of a malicious software program hiding on websites to ‘steal’ the computing resources on visitors’ devices to mine the cryptocurrency Monero for hackers.

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