How to protect yourself from the hidden mining. Simple and effective tips
Source:Hidden mining is gaining momentum. Cryptogenic became one of the most common types of fraud. Moreover, in order to fall into the trap of hackers, not necessarily even know about the crypt. Secret mining does not respect borders, distances, and monetary statuses.
And although this is one of the most harmless species of fraud, it affects performance. The portal figured out how to clean your computer of hidden miners.
theWhat is cryptogenic
Mining and hidden that no one knows it, unless the hacker. The whole principle of cryptogamia is based on the fact that the resources of the PC of an unsuspecting user are used for scams. Direct damage to hidden mining is not responsible, but the computer starts to slow down.
Due to the high complexity of Bitcoin mining to produce it on the user devices is meaningless. Mostly hackers altcoins bottom, the first line of which is Monero. Among cryptogamia, so Monero coin that approximately 5 percent of its total volume extracted with the help of a hidden mining. law enforcement agencies and cyber security companies are not afraid of criminals.
How it works
A"Victim" of a hidden mining could be almost any modern device with Internet access. Most often the PC resources steal with the help of mining in browser. The user comes to the site, where a hidden miner sewn into a Javascript file. The owner of the page may not even be aware of the fact of extraction of the crypt is sometimes hackers find holes in security systems of the sites for the integration of its miners.
The First script for mining coins in the browser became CoinHive. Special popularity he gained after PirateBay. However, now there are many other analogues CoinHive.
The Second most popular method is the download of malware to continuous mining. Here, for those interested in easy money there are a lot of options. Miners slip to users disguised as system files or as a major upgrade of the system.
Particularly inventive hackers have not spared even the victims ' smartphones. However, application developers are not sitting idly by – they strongly hidden mining.
How to avoid
Notice something was wrong pretty easily. The computer starts to slow down, long opening tabs in the browser and slowly switches between Windows. In more detail the impact of hidden miners can be studied in task Manager, which is opened with Ctrl + Alt + Delete. If the load of your CPU close to one hundred percent, it is time to beat trivago.
To counter scriptordering should download special software that blocks CoinHive and similar scripts. The last update of Windows 10 also blocks some scripts, but not all. You can, of course, and disable Javascript, but without it comfortable surfing the web more complicated.
Another option is to switch to Opera. The browser has protection against hidden hashing by default, so you don't even need to download anything.
In the case of mobile devices based on iOS or Android, things are even simpler – the miners will stop work as soon as you switch to another tab or application. The OS doesn't allow background processes using too many CPU resources.
And finally, the main measure – stick to basic cyberhighway. Do not download suspicious files, do not walk on suspicious links and always update your antivirus. Periodically check the system state and resource consumption.
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