Showtime Websites Used to Mine Monero, Unclear If Hack or an Experiment
From Bleepingcomputer
Two Showtime domains are currently loading and running Coinhive, a JavaScript library that mines Monero using the CPU resources of users visiting Showtime's websites.Read more: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/showtime-websites-used-to-mine-monero-unclear-if-hack-or-an-experiment/The two domains are showtime.com and showtimeanytime.com, the latter being the official URL for the company's online video streaming service.
The main Showtime domain name, sho.com, does not include the Coinhive Monero mining script.
The Monero miner was first discovered 16 hours ago, at around 17:00 ET (22:00 GMT) by a Twitter user named SkensNet.
Hack or experiment?
It is unclear if someone hacked Showtime and included the mining script without the company's knowledge.
I don't think Coinhive will last very long. I predict ad block software will learn to block them and future copy cats. I'm sure Chrome will start blocking their domain and labeling it as malware since they are trying to compete against their ads.
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I believe it would be illegal in many countries or at least highly unethical for Showtime to do this. There’s no way the risk is worth the reward. My guess is it’s either a rouge employee or a hack.
That's really interesting to see if we ever get an answer if it someone on the inside experimenting or someone hacked in. Thanks for posting this story as I hadn't seen anything about it yet.
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