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Cryptojacking

A while ago, a new phenomenon called cryptojacking has appeared. CERT.be sees an uprising of the number of infections and an increasing of their complexity. Detections of coinminers on endpoint computers increase. At this rate CERT.be projects that cryptojacking will become a bigger threat than ransomware.
The goal of this document is to discuss in-browser mining and cryptojacking.