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COINHIVE CRYPTOJACKER DEPLOYED ON YOUTUBE VIA GOOGLE ADS
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CATALIN CIMPANU
* January 26, 2018
* 07:05 PM
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Some smart crooks found a way to insert and deliver the Coinhive in-browser
miner inside ads delivered via the Google DoubleClick ad delivery platform.
Ads delivered this way made their way on countless sites, and even on Google's
own property —YouTube.
A Trend Micro report released today claims the crooks behind this campaign
started abusing Google's DoubleClick platform to deliver the Coinhive in-browser
miner around January 18 and significantly ramped up operations on January 23.
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The chart above shows Coinhive detections for this malvertising campaign abusing
Google DoubleClick.
CROOKS DEPLOYED COINHIVE ON YOUTUBE ON JANUARY 23
The huge spike represents the moment when crooks decided to deliver the
Coinhive-tainted ads on YouTube, the world's largest video hosting platform.
Reports immediately started appearing on Twitter [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8].
According to some of these reports, various antivirus products began detecting
the Coinhive cryptojacker when users were visiting YouTube, a place where
Coinhive would have never been able to load except via malicious JavaScript code
hidden in one of the numerous ads displayed on video pages.
> Great now my browser everytime I watch youtube... my anti virus always
> blocking coinhive because malware . Idk much about it but this is getting
> annoying and I need a solution please T n T
>
> — Arung (@ArungLaksmana) January 23, 2018
> The same form me. Maybe youtube is using coinhive . com ?
> pic.twitter.com/GUSItBp1tM
>
> — Neretva (@neretva2010) January 24, 2018
The Coinhive service appeared last September and has described itself as a
website monetization service that could be employed as an alternative to classic
online ads. The service uses JavaScript code to mine the Monero cryptocurrency
inside the browser of a site's visitor.
Despite its good intentions, the service has been abused by crooks, who load the
Coinhive in-browser miner on hacked sites, via malicious ads, inside desktop
apps and game mods, and any other place that can run JavaScript code.
After Coinhive's initial success, various similar services have also launched
online. These services operate by taking a small cut of the cryptocurrency
website owners mine using their visitors' PCs.
This practice of secretly loading a JavaScript miner inside browsers and other
JS-capable apps is being called cryptojacking or drive-by mining.
Currently, only ad blockers, no-JavaScript browser extensions, and antivirus
products have proven efficient at blocking cryptojacking scripts.
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COMMENTS
* HENK717 - 3 YEARS AGO
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The end of the article is not entirely correct, there are extensions
dedicated to detecting and blocking mining scripts such as minerBlock that
not only block the locations of the known mining scripts but also analyse
them to block them when ran trough a proxy, served inline or are slightly
modified.
* SUPERSAPIEN64 - 3 YEARS AGO
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I wonder if Ublock Origin can block mining scripts? Or if not if there are
any mining scripts blockers available for Firefox?
* _LC_ - 3 YEARS AGO
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"uBlock Origin Developers Take Steps to Block Cryptocurrency Mining Scripts"
Search for this. If I post the link, the post gets canceled. :-(
* CAMPUSCODI - 3 YEARS AGO
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I deleted your comment. That site has been ripping articles off our site and
many other legitimate news sources for almost a year. I'm not gonna allow
links on my stories that promote kind of journalism.
* _LC_ - 3 YEARS AGO
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Sorry to hear that. It's showing up on top when searching. Probably they are
doing those dreadful search engine "optimizations" as well. But yes, uBlock
devs have spotted the problem and are taking care of it. :-)
* SUPERSAPIEN64 - 3 YEARS AGO
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Also Noscript should block Cryptocurrency Mining Scripts as well. ;)
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