After the big obsession in digital currencies, there have been a number of fraudulent methods to exploit the power of the computer processor of the users to mine these digital currencies and thus make some money from it. A group of scammers use scripts and software that are integrated with some services and sites without knowing the users So.
In recent developments related to fraud techniques to users has been revealed the months of addition in the browser store called Chrome Chrome Archive Archive, where the developer exploits the computers of users who uploaded to the currency mining Monero Monero without their knowledge.
This add-on has been downloaded from more than 100,000 users. It is reported that this add-on has started using the Coinhive miner script, which has been mining digital coins since the beginning of last December of last year 2017. Google has been in the past few days removing it from its store.
The developer of this addendum responded to these accusations by saying that one of his assistants from the team responsible for updating the addendum was exposed to theft and the hacker encoded the addition of the archive archive script and they rolled a new version of the addition [SAFE] Archive Poster