[kwlug-disc] Another Humble Bundle: Cryptocurrency

[Joel Nahrgang]

Not sure if anyone here listens to the Security now podcast,but in the
recent one, they were discussing the browser mining and it seems like there
are a lot more sites that do it then we may think.
It was interesting to hear their take - not really insecure and doesn't
really use much of the computer.

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> I use uBlock Origin as well. In addition to that, NoScript.
>
> Exactly to prevent this kind of abuse, and keep my (older)
> laptop performant.
>
> On 10/15/17, Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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