Websites owned by CBS subsidiary Showtime secretly used viewers’ web browsers to mine cryptocurrency over the weekend, according to a report.
According to the Register, “The flagship Showtime.com and its instant-access ShowtimeAnytime.com sibling silently pulled in code that caused browsers to blow spare processor time calculating new Monero coins – a privacy-focused alternative to the ever-popular Bitcoin.”
“The hidden software typically consumed as much as 60 percent of CPU capacity on computers visiting the sites,” they continued, adding, however, that “it’s extremely unlikely that a large corporation like CBS would smuggle such a piece of mining code onto its dot-coms – especially since it charges subscribers to watch the hit TV shows online – suggesting someone hacked the websites’ source code to insert the mining JavaScript and make a quick buck.”. – READ MORE
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