{"id":15009,"date":"2017-12-25T11:48:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T10:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/2017\/12\/25\/how-to-protect-yourself-from-cryptojacking\/"},"modified":"2019-05-21T17:24:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:24:13","slug":"how-to-protect-yourself-from-cryptojacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/2017\/12\/25\/how-to-protect-yourself-from-cryptojacking\/","title":{"rendered":"How to protect yourself from cryptojacking"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time:<\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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A researcher has documented almost 2,500 sites that are actively running cryptocurrency mining code (Javascript e WebAssembly) in the browsers of unsuspecting visitors.<\/p>\n

You can notice it because when someone is visiting one of these sites that embeds cryptocurrency mining code it maxes out the visitor’s CPU.
\nYou can make a test by visiting the Cryptojacking test<\/a> site to see if you are vulnerable.<\/p>\n

How to block cryptojacking?<\/h3>\n

Some developers have realized browser extensions that can block these scripts:<\/p>\n

NoCoin<\/a> for Chrome, Firefox and Opera
\nNoMiner<\/a>
\nMining Blocker
\nminerBlock<\/a> for Chrome
\nCoin-Hive Blocker<\/a> for Chrome<\/p>\n

Users that already have an Ad blocker can add the list from adblock-nocoin-list<\/a> Github project to prevent mining scripts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading time:<\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>A researcher has documented almost 2,500 sites that are actively running cryptocurrency mining code (Javascript e WebAssembly) in the browsers of unsuspecting visitors. You can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3486],"tags":[3441,3443,3440,3438,3442,3439,2121,149],"class_list":["post-15009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-en","tag-coin-hive","tag-coinhive","tag-cryptojacking","tag-miner","tag-minero","tag-mining","tag-script","tag-scripts"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Simone","author_link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Web<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Web<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["coin-hive<\/a>","coinhive<\/a>","cryptojacking<\/a>","miner<\/a>","minero<\/a>","mining<\/a>","script<\/a>","scripts<\/a>"],"unlinked":["coin-hive<\/span>","coinhive<\/span>","cryptojacking<\/span>","miner<\/span>","minero<\/span>","mining<\/span>","script<\/span>","scripts<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 9 years ago","modified":"Updated 7 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on December 25, 2017","modified":"Updated on May 21, 2019"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on December 25, 2017 11:48 am","modified":"Updated on May 21, 2019 5:24 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}