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Cryptojacking Coinhive Miners Land on the Microsoft Store For the First Time

A batch of eight potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) were found on the Microsoft Store dropping malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts, delivered with the help of Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library. Symantec’s Yuanjing Guo and Tommy Dong stated, the risky apps were found “on Windows 10

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