Detected a new variation of the CoinHive miner, in this case in Powvideo, what it does is to mine cryptocurrencies redirecting to a proxy and a second web, loading the processor.

Elite Torrent uses the CoinHive miner, Gran Torrent uses a miner for Ethereum and in this case, our follower has discovered that Powvideo uses another miner, called Coinnebula, so we have already detected three different types of miners, who make use of our processor to mine cryptocurrencies for their own benefit.

The adBlock plugin does not block this practice, but it does so with the advertising of most of these web pages. In this case we do not speak either of a script itself, we are talking about a redirection towards a next and another web page, so this system is more complex. Adrián tells us that he has tried to use FocalFilter, which is used to block addresses, although he only managed a limited blockage, only a few seconds, since the web sends constant connection requests to undermine and finally blocks the block.

It seems that Connebula uses cryptonight to perform cryptocurrency mining, which acts in the background. Adrián points out that he has searched for the Powvideo data and this website has more than 900,000 visits, which is about $ 6,000 a day and about $ 180,000 per month. It is clear that with this income data, you do not need to integrate this solution to maintain the page and earn some money. It makes clear, therefore, that it is only greed and that the only thing they are looking for is to get even richer with the hardware of the users that access this page.

We highlight this follower that mining consumes almost 30W and without this consumes 7W, which for a desktop processor is not a big consumption, but if it is a problem for laptops and tablets, not only that, we must emphasize that the processor suffers a great wear when working at full load and in addition, there is also a remarkable thermal shock.

There is a solution for this case. The solution is called uBlock, a plugin that is installed in our Chrome browser and can block specific web addresses and thanks to this system, we will solve the problem, but only in the browser. Those who have more technical knowledge and can manage the network, can block the addresses "ws03.coinnebula.com" and "ws02.coinnebula.com", so anyone who accesses the network will be protected and we will not have to install the aforementioned complement.