The Pirate Bay surprised many of its users when it added a JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miner to its website. On 16 September, users began posting on Reddit about how they’d seen a significant jump ...
A cryptocurrency miner surfaced on The Pirate Bay for a day over the weekend. A cryptocurrency miner surfaced on the world’s largest torrenting site for a day over the weekend, raising the ire of ...
A recent uptick in the use of silent cryptocurrency miner attacks that unsuspectingly exploit a users' CPU cycles to mine Monero has shown that everyone from Pirate Bay browsers to Showtime customers ...
The Pirate Bay gave no warning to users before running a 'test' that embedded JavaScript to run a cryptocurrency miner that hogged CPU resources. For once, the Motion Picture Association of America ...