Coinhive shut its doors in March 2019 following months of steady decline and loss of interest in browser-based mining. Site owners could monetize their traffic by having visitors mine for cryptocurrencies in their browser. Torrent portals are still running cryptojacking code, but some sites have never been cleaned, and the bits of JavaScript requesting the coin mining library are still there. The number of compromised sites loading web miners was going down in 2018, but a fresh opportunity presented itself, thanks to serious vulnerabilities affecting MikroTik routers.”]
Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2019/05/cryptojacking-in-the-post-coinhive-era/