[kwlug-disc] Another Humble Bundle: Cryptocurrency

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

I wonder if it is indeed a hack by a third party, or sites are
experimenting with mining, or simply their ad serving
service was used by third parties to serve ads.

The ad service possibility is not likely in the case of
Politifact, since The Register says the code in question
was in the site navigation bar.

But all ad serving is based on Javascript, and it would
be possible with some craftiness to serve mining JS.

We saw malware/ransomware a few months ago served
this way.

On 10/14/17, Ronald Barnes <ron at ronaldbarnes.ca> wrote:
> Khalid Baheyeldin wrote on 2017-10-14 02:43 PM:
>
>> An ad blocking firm did some research, and they claim
>> that 500 million people are mining cryptocurrency when
>> visiting web sites.
>
> Haven't followed all the links supplied, but just reading that
> Politifact had this "feature"; likely placed there by miscreants, not
> Politifact
>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/13/politifact_mining_cryptocurrency/
>
> Apologies if this was previously mentioned.
>
>
> r b
>
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