Your browser might be doing someone else’s dirty work behind your back, mining cryptocurrency for malicious individuals using your desktop or laptops to create the digital currency,
Hackers have now written mining software that continues to borrow CPU power without user consent, whether or not they use Coinhive’s browser-based mining tool. Constant mining from multiple sites could potentially slow down your machine.
If you’re worried about someone impacting your computer’s performance for personal gain, you can download and install the browser extension NoCoin,
NoCoin was made by developer Rafael Keradimas, and helps to solve the issue of compromised sites abusing the potentially beneficial tactic of borrowing visitors’ computers to mine cryptocurrency and monetize content, all with their consent. It’s available for Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera web browsers.