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10-31-2017 05:54 AM
This week I noticed a "CoinHive Javascript Detection" in the logs of our Palo Alto.
When reading on the subject I noticed that there are websites around that use Javascript to start mining Crypto coins on the users' computer.
Detailed description can be found here :
https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/10/unit42-unauthorized-coin-mining-browser/
I noticed in the Palo Alto blog that : PANDB is able to block URLs hosting Coinhive JavaScript.
My question:
How does one actually block this?
When I visit for example https://coinhive.com/ and push the button "Start Mining" the CPU goes up to 100%.
