[kwlug-disc] Another Humble Bundle: Cryptocurrency

[Chamunks]

And this is why I use uMatrix and other JS smashing things.
https://brave.com
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 8:16 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> 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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