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Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by thehappypm on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:09AM (#30555874)
Can you mine crypto in the browser? I know there are some native hooks, presumably JavaScript is never going to give a good hash rate, but it would be interesting if sites starting dropping JS tags that silently mined crypto in the background.
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Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by kmeisthax on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:11AM (#30555902)
WASM Monero miners were a big problem years ago.
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Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by matheusmoreira on Saturday March 05, 2022 @01:04AM (#30564783)
Certainly.

https://github.com/jtgrassie/xmr-wasm

Individually hash rate will be quite poor but if you make a mining pool out of all your users everything changes. Monero mining pools even have rules prohibiting that.

https://minexmr.com/miningguide

> Botnet / Web Mining Policy

> Sadly it happens that Botnets often run cryptominers on infected PCs.

> minexmr does not support botnets, web miners or any other illegal activities.

> Any account suspected of botnet mining or web mining will be banned.

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Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by causi on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:41AM (#30556261)
Oh certainly. Back in 2018 I found my favorite site to read online comics was turning my phone into a hot plate before I blocked JS.
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