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Archive Poster Chrome Extension Silently Mining CryptoCurrency

More than 500 million computers are mining cryptoCurrency in their browsers without the users knowledge. Chrome extension Archive Poster with more than 105,000 users Caught injecting an in-browser cryptocurrency miner. Extension consists of a hidden Coinhive crypto jacker and it wont ask any permissions before abusing the user’s CPU resource. The extension is an extension used to repost the Tumblr blogs, according to the users review the extension includes the most famous coinhive source code.”]

Source: https://gbhackers.com/chrome-extension-archive-poster/

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