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The Year Cryptojacking Ate the Web

Published: Dec. 25, 2018, 7:23 a.m.

Cybersecurity can feel like a chaotic free-for-all sometimes, but it's not every day that a whole new conceptual type of attack crops up. Over the last 15 months, though, cryptojacking has been exactly that. It's officially everywhere, and it's not going away. The concept of cryptojacking is pretty simple: An attacker finds a way to harness the processing power of computers she doesn't own\u2014or pay the electric bills on\u2014to mine cryptocurrency for herself.