EVEN MORE SITES DISCOVERED SECRETLY MINING CRYPTOCURRENCY HERE’S HOW YOU CAN STOP THEM

After it was discovered in early October that The Pirate Bay was surreptitiously using visitors’ CPUs to mine cryptocurrency, several other websites have been caught using the same trick. Along with a host of shady websites (for porn, torrents, and so on), US fact-checking website Politifact also found it was unknowingly running a miner, although the offending code has since been removed. To prevent your CPU from being exploited in this way, make sure you have an up-to-date ad blocker installed in your browser.