{"id":11587,"date":"2018-02-25T10:45:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T18:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/25\/news-5358\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T10:45:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T18:45:18","slug":"news-5358","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/25\/news-5358\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with Cryptojacking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credit to Author: Jonathon Keats| Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

v.<\/em> Swiping computer processing power through a web browser to illicitly mint cryptocurrency<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

People who streamed the TV drama Billions<\/em> last fall may have been hit by some real-life financial chica\u00adnery. While they watched, a rogue script on the Showtime website directed their PCs to engage in \u201cmining\u201d operations for a bitcoin-like digital currency.<\/p>\n

Doing currency mining on your own machine is perfectly legit. Basically, you\u2019re solving gnarly math problems to verify transactions; in return, you get some new coins. But the Showtime cryptojacker tapped into the CPUs of unsuspecting viewers and used their spare cycles to do the spadework. Not<\/em> legit.<\/p>\n

But do we care? Jackers pick so many pockets at once that the cost per victim is minimal: a fraction of a cent in electricity and only a slight dip in computer performance (if done right). What\u2019s more, browser-based mining isn\u2019t all bad: The script was created by a company called Coinhive as a revenue alternative to ads on websites. Charities have used it to collect donations. It might even be a new model for micropayments, letting us opt in to swapping processor time for content or services. And the best part? We don\u2019t have to lift a finger.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, that\u2019s also what makes cryptojacking so hard to stop<\/a>: It trades on our apathy, and we\u2019ve got plenty of that<\/em> to spare.<\/p>\n

This article appears in the February issue. Subscribe now<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ransomware. It's malware but worse. It takes the contents of your device hostage and demands Bitcoin as a, you guessed it, ransom. Here's how to avoid it and what to do if your laptop gets locked.<\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Jonathon Keats| Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jackers pick so many pockets at once that the cost per victim is actually minimal. What\u2019s more, browser-based mining isn\u2019t all bad. So what gives?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10378,10607],"tags":[714],"class_list":["post-11587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-wired","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}