- Jul 22, 2014
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The in-browser cryptojacking craze that has taken over the Internet is getting worse by the day and more and more sites are implementing such systems, intentionally or after getting hacked.
Malwarebytes, one of the first major antivirus companies that have added support for blocking such scripts has recently released a report detailing statistics from the last month.
According to the Malwarebytes team, Malwarebytes products have blocked on average around 8 million requests per day to domains hosting in-browser cryptocurrency mining scripts.
In total, the company says it blocked nearly 248 million requests during the entire month of October 2017, and most of these requests were for Coinhive, today's most popular in-browser Monero mining service.
The number of actual users affected by this plague is most likely much higher. This is because Malwarebytes does not block Coinhive and similar scripts by default but prompts the user via a popup, letting users select what they want to do.
In addition, not all Internet users utilize the Malwarebytes antivirus, which means the real number of requests to mining scripts is most likely in the realm of tens of millions of requests per day.
The number is also much higher since special proxy services have popped up online that allow some website operators to evade ad blockers and antivirus solutions by tunneling Coinhive requests through other domains.
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Malwarebytes, one of the first major antivirus companies that have added support for blocking such scripts has recently released a report detailing statistics from the last month.
According to the Malwarebytes team, Malwarebytes products have blocked on average around 8 million requests per day to domains hosting in-browser cryptocurrency mining scripts.
In total, the company says it blocked nearly 248 million requests during the entire month of October 2017, and most of these requests were for Coinhive, today's most popular in-browser Monero mining service.
The number of actual users affected by this plague is most likely much higher. This is because Malwarebytes does not block Coinhive and similar scripts by default but prompts the user via a popup, letting users select what they want to do.
In addition, not all Internet users utilize the Malwarebytes antivirus, which means the real number of requests to mining scripts is most likely in the realm of tens of millions of requests per day.
The number is also much higher since special proxy services have popped up online that allow some website operators to evade ad blockers and antivirus solutions by tunneling Coinhive requests through other domains.
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