Does your CPU fan starts spinning really fast or your phone starts heating when you browse over the internet, then this information is for you, as you have become a victim of cryptojacking.
I will let you know what is cryptojacking and how can you not be a victim of it.
Now let me give you a general overview,
you have some work, so you browse website and find solutions for your work, now most of these websites try to earn, they do it by posting ads and they get revenue for that, what if I told you now a days those websites are not using ads to earn but are using your CPU (computing devices) like laptop and phones to mine cryptocurrency.
Hackers take advantage of this platform and use websites which has huge traffic to mine cryptocurrency In this case the hacker has no need to attacking your devices or sending malware, it’s just done by a simple JavaScript which runs in the background.
Lets take a really good example, a really popular torrent website called pirate bay was using this technique, whenever a user visited this website their device started heating up and there was a spike in their CPU usage, later pirate bay agreed they were testing the mining technique as they wanted to have a clean layout without ads in their website. People had positive and negative review about this act, people were happy to see no ads, but some were not as it came at the cost of slowing their devices and using electricity.
Now the question of how to stop cryptojacking arises, you can go to your browser (chrome, Firefox etc) settings and block JavaScript. There are many other extension for doing the same, like “NO COIN” it can be downloaded for chrome web store to stop mining and there are numerous ways to stop it by using script blockers.
Mining bitcoin by normal laptop is something which is impossible right now, but by using not just one device but multiple devices many other crypto currency like monero can be mine.
I hope this was informative, please do follow for tech info.
