Hackers invade YouTube ads to mine cryptocurrency (pcmag.com).
[Last] week, ads over YouTube carried a sneaky surprise: a cryptocurrency miner. The mining software briefly invaded the video platform in an attempt to secretly siphon the computing power from any YouTube viewers who encountered the ads.
Something you may have noticed your antivirus software of choice picking up on more and more with Javascript files flagged as malware with a JS. prefix in slightly dodgy monetised, or just damn right hacked and monetised malicious sites of late, your desktops graphics card being particularly suited for cryptocurrency mining (kaspersky.com, Jul. 2017) and reminding that some still do imagine low virtual horsepowered in relation ’Droid and iDevices still havn’t quite took over the virtual online landscape just yet and perhaps never completely will.
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