<div dir="ltr">And this is why I use uMatrix and other JS smashing things.<div><a href="https://brave.com">https://brave.com</a><br></div><div><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/</a><br></div><div><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 8:16 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I wonder if it is indeed a hack by a third party, or sites are<br>
experimenting with mining, or simply their ad serving<br>
service was used by third parties to serve ads.<br>
<br>
The ad service possibility is not likely in the case of<br>
Politifact, since The Register says the code in question<br>
was in the site navigation bar.<br>
<br>
But all ad serving is based on Javascript, and it would<br>
be possible with some craftiness to serve mining JS.<br>
<br>
We saw malware/ransomware a few months ago served<br>
this way.<br>
<br>
On 10/14/17, Ronald Barnes <<a href="mailto:ron@ronaldbarnes.ca" target="_blank">ron@ronaldbarnes.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> Khalid Baheyeldin wrote on 2017-10-14 02:43 PM:<br>
><br>
>> An ad blocking firm did some research, and they claim<br>
>> that 500 million people are mining cryptocurrency when<br>
>> visiting web sites.<br>
><br>
> Haven't followed all the links supplied, but just reading that<br>
> Politifact had this "feature"; likely placed there by miscreants, not<br>
> Politifact<br>
><br>
>> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/13/politifact_mining_cryptocurrency/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/13/politifact_mining_cryptocurrency/</a><br>
><br>
> Apologies if this was previously mentioned.<br>
><br>
><br>
> r b<br>
><br>
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