Monero launch website to protect against covert mining. How it will work?
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The Developers of the coin will launch a new educational website which will help data center owners and others to protect their money from scammers and to calculate and malware on your computer or smartphone. This writes with reference to the message of the company.
According to Director of security Justin Ehrenhofer Monero, Monero is now extremely attractive to hackers for two reasons.
How to protect yourself from the hidden mining
First, the coin is kept private, and companies and law enforcement agencies can't keep track of how tokens are used after their production. This opens up a wide field for hackers to use XMR for fraudulent purposes. Second, Monero was created in the algorithm Proof of Work (PoW), which allows to extract tokens using graphics processors. As a result, the contamination of devices software for covert mining gives attackers a good profit. For these reasons, hackers prefer XMR other digital assets.
Edenhofer noted that the company has created a website to help victims of a hidden mining and extortion by fraud. The site also appears utility for removing malicious software from users ' devices.
Of Course, the Monero developers and the community do not attack computers, but doing this the attackers. I want to believe that the new resource will really help to protect users from hackers and programs for covert mining.
In July, an anonymous Japanese miner a year in prison for using on your website script Coinhive for covert mining Monero. This punishment was the first real term for secretly mining cryptocurrency.
Let's hope that the developers of Monero will be able to cope with the attackers. However, educational resource, this is clearly not enough — we need more decisive actions in fighting with the creators of the script Coinhive.
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