A couple of years ago it felt like you couldn’t turn your head in any direction without seeing another headline about cryptomining and – its more evil sibling – cryptojacking.Countless websites were hijacked, and injected with cryptocurrency-mining code designed to exploit the resources of visiting computers. Victims included the likes of the LA Times, and political fact-checking website Politifact.Even a European water utility’s operational network was said to have fallen foul of hackers planting cryptomining code.In one infamous case, thousands of government websites in the United States and UK – including the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and USCourts.gov – were simultaneously hijacked by cryptomining code after hackers poisoned a widely-used accessibility plugin.Some developers even coded their apps to “unobtrusively” mine for cryptocurrency in lieu of users taking out a subscription, and hundreds of thousands of unpatched IoT devices were cryptojacked.Meanwhile, well-known sites such as Showtime, Salon.com and The Pirate Bay, willingly ran cryptomining code on their webpages as they hunted for a way to generate revenue in a world where online ..
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