deathshadow
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Just a heads up, but recently a JavaScript was invented that lets site owners run a JavaScript in your browser that will mine cryptocurrency such as bitcoin or montero while you are browsing their site. This can consume massive amounts of CPU if you have multiple tabs open and/or leave them open for very long.
Gizmodo did an article about it just a couple days ago:
https://gizmodo.com/how-to-stop-pirate-bay-and-other-sites-from-hijacking-y-1818549856
WELL NOW someone's upped the ante as there's a forum exploit making the rounds that injects this script into the forum templates. I've seen it on four forums so far, three of them running vbulletin and one running SMF... it seems to be a particularly nasty hack too.
Since these forums run Vbulletin it might be a good idea to keep an eye on things. For NOW it seems to be clean, but I'm running around warning people just in case.
AGAIN why I highly suggest running an adblocker like adblock plus, and a script blocker like Ghostery. For now neither recognizes it but I expect that to change quickly. With Adblock plus you can follow the instructions on gizmodo to block it, though frankly I would shorten it to block the whole domain, and not just the one script.
So if you're browsing a website and your CPU use spikes? This could be why. Just keep an eye out. FOR NOW it's not a massive problem, but this could escalate REALLY quickly.
Gizmodo did an article about it just a couple days ago:
https://gizmodo.com/how-to-stop-pirate-bay-and-other-sites-from-hijacking-y-1818549856
WELL NOW someone's upped the ante as there's a forum exploit making the rounds that injects this script into the forum templates. I've seen it on four forums so far, three of them running vbulletin and one running SMF... it seems to be a particularly nasty hack too.
Since these forums run Vbulletin it might be a good idea to keep an eye on things. For NOW it seems to be clean, but I'm running around warning people just in case.
AGAIN why I highly suggest running an adblocker like adblock plus, and a script blocker like Ghostery. For now neither recognizes it but I expect that to change quickly. With Adblock plus you can follow the instructions on gizmodo to block it, though frankly I would shorten it to block the whole domain, and not just the one script.
So if you're browsing a website and your CPU use spikes? This could be why. Just keep an eye out. FOR NOW it's not a massive problem, but this could escalate REALLY quickly.