Real Mad-quid: Murky cryptojacking menace that smacked Ronaldo site grows

Cryptojacking is well on its way to becoming a new menace to internet hygiene. In some cases internet publishers are making money by using the spare processor cycles of visiting surfers to mine cryptocurrency, but in other incidents, hackers have planted JavaScript that covertly takes over the systems – a process that has become known as cryptojacking.

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