Coinhive Monero Mining script briefly appears on two Showtime sites

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18 minutes ago, WMGroomAK said:

'll update the news article in a moment, but found an article on The Register where they were able to contact the Web Analytics business associated with the Showtime sites as well as some information from Coin Hive which makes it sound as if Showtime may have been breached and had this script injected temporarily.  Although Showtime still has not provided comment so it's not truly known yet where the code was injected from...

That's what they want us to think before this becomes ubiquitous so that they can iron out the bugs!

/tinfoil hat

[WMGroomAK]

16 minutes ago, tjcater said:

That's what they want us to think before this becomes ubiquitous so that they can iron out the bugs!

/tinfoil hat

It could be tinfoil hat but the fact that Showtime/CBS hasn't officially responded as far as I can tell is not really good...  Some of the tinfoil scenarios that I can think of is that they were seriously breached and are trying to account for any information that was stolen in addition to having the Coin Hive code inserted or they purposefully were trying to mine from people and set it up in a way to potentially play the victim or maybe they had a rogue web developer who was getting shorted on pay and figured they would just earn a bit of extra income on the side.  Either way, they really do need to at least issue a statement of some sort...

[jagdtigger]

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That said, all the uproar about cryptocurrency miners and their possible abuse has also attracted the attention of ad-blockers. Some people have coded new browser add-ons to block miners specifically and the popular uBlock Origin added Coinhive to its default blocklist as well. And that’s just after a few days.

Needless to say, this limits the number of miners, and thus the money that comes in. And there’s another problem with a similar effect.

In addition to ad-blockers, anti-virus tools are also flagging Coinhive. Malwarebytes is one of the companies that lists it as a malicious activity, warning users about the threat.

https://torrentfreak.com/cryptocurrency-miner-targeted-by-anti-virus-and-adblock-tools-170926/

 

Well well....

Edited September 26, 2017 by jagdtigger

[WMGroomAK]

9 minutes ago, jagdtigger said:

https://torrentfreak.com/cryptocurrency-miner-targeted-by-anti-virus-and-adblock-tools-170926/

 

Well well....

This makes an interesting story as the situation updates on whether the Coin Hive script is malware or whether it is just the implementation of it has been poorly handled.  My personal feeling is that the implementation and roll-out of it has been poorly handled and that has created a bad situation for it to recover from.  I am glad that Coin Hive is apparently taking steps to try and prevent the undisclosed implementation in the future...

 

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Coinhive, meanwhile, has chimed in as well. The company says that it wasn’t properly prepared for the massive attention and understands why some ad-blockers have put them on the blacklist.

 

“Providing a real alternative to ads and users who block them turned out to be a much harder problem. Coinhive, too, is now blocked by many ad-block browser extensions, which – we have to admit – is reasonable at this point.”

 

Most complaints have been targeted at sites that implemented the miner without the user’s consent. Coinhive doesn’t like this either and will take steps to prevent it in future.

 

“We’re a bit saddened to see that some of our customers integrate Coinhive into their pages without disclosing to their users what’s going on, let alone asking for their permission,” the Coinhive team notes.

 

[chris.how]

I’m really interested if this is a viable option for adult video websites as a supplement or alternative to ads https://tubeace.com/will-mining-cryptocurrency-porn-tube-sites-way-future/