A study of web-based cryptojacking in the wild. The companion cites its finding that about one in 500 of the most-visited websites in 2018 served cryptojacking scripts that mined on their visitors' processors. These are parasites proper, automatic code running on the host's own machinery, in the datasphere's food web.
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- the companion paper
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- Cybersecurity & AI-enabled attack
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@misc{musch2018web,
title = {Web-based Cryptojacking in the Wild},
author = {Marius Musch and Christian Wressnegger and Martin Johns and Konrad Rieck},
year = {2018},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09474},
}