https://www.technewsworld.com/story/84838.html
Behind-the-Scenes Cryptocurrency Mining Discovered on Showtime Sites
This article talks about the following: Showtime is a premium television network that operates under CBS, Showtime networks has mined the websites of online viewers using the same Coinhive technology that the pirate bay recently used in test run site, Coinhive JavaScript miner was being used to hijack the CPU of site visitors, Showtime was mining the emerging cryptocurrency Monero, it is unclear whether ShowTime was aware or involved in planting the Coinhive mining technology into its source code, in addition source code found on the site appeared to be lined to the web analytics firm New Relic, the JavaScript miner targets compromised websites and uses social engineering to lures and make users pay for illegitimate tech support, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Monero, and LiteCoin are operating in a kind of wild west environment where the rules are still not quite settled, and finally companies like Showtime and Pirate Bay are seeing what they can get away with.
It will be interesting to see how things unfold in the future. Most importantly, what the future holds for cryptocurrencies, will they continue to go up? Also, once they do will they be regulated by the government? Finally, will cryptocurrencies start to compete with the big banks?
Hi Donald, great article!
Recently China, the US and South Korea banned using cryptocurrencies as funds to start a company. It will be interesting to see what regulations follow….
I wonder if the subscribers whose CPU cycles were used will be reimbursed if their resources mined any coins!