JavaScript crypto miners have been around for quite a while. Monero (XMR), the crypto currency mined by these scripts was released in April 2014. As shown in the following figure, the increase in price of Bitcoin was coupled with increase in price of Ethereum and Monero. This jump led to these in browser miners being over emphasized in the media. Advertisements being replaced by miners Website administrators started including miner scripts in their websites. The more the user stays on the website, the more Monero mined. Coinhive review: Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner – 3 days in [1] shows that using...
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Babak Amin Azad
I'm a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University. I work on the topics of web security. My main focus is on "Web Application Attack Surface Reduction Through Software Debloating".
I also study internet bots and anti-bot technologies, and pretty much anything related to web and mobile security.
I also study internet bots and anti-bot technologies, and pretty much anything related to web and mobile security.