source: https://blog.chromium.org/2018/04/protecting-users-from-extension-cryptojacking.html
James Wagner, Google Chrome Extensions Platform Product Manager, announced yesterday that Google decided to ban cryptocurrency mining extensions in the company's Chrome Web Store.
Cryptocurrency mining in the browser context is a relatively new phenomenon but one that is on the rise.
James Wanger, on behalf of Google, failed to disclose how the company wants to ensure that mining extensions won't find their way into the Store anymore.
The Store has a track record of being abused by malicious actors, often in form of browser extensions that downloaded additional modules when run by users.
Google's Web Store uses algorithms to check and verify uploaded extensions.
It remains to be seen how well Google's algorithm is at detecting cryptomining extensions.
While it will block the bulk of extensions I would not hold by breath that it will have a 100% detection track record.