Cryptojacking

What is Cryptojacking?

Cryptojacking is the illegal use of someone else's computer to mine bitcoin. Hackers can silently mine cryptocurrencies on a victim's device using two main methods:

• By persuading the victim to click on an email's malicious link, which launches crypto mining software on the victim's PC.
• By using JavaScript code to infect a website or online advertisement, which then auto-runs when the victim's browser loads it.

To increase their profit, hackers frequently combine the two techniques. In each instance, the victim works while the code installs the crypto-jacking script into the device and lets it run in the background. Regardless of the technique, the script executes difficult mathematical operations on the victims' computers and transmits the results to a server under the hacker's control.