The Pirate Bay surprised many of its users when it added a JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miner to its website. On 16 September, users began posting on Reddit about how they’d seen a significant jump ...

Udpate, 9/17/17: It turns out the actual cryptocurrency being mined by TPB is actually Monero. As such this article has been updated. The Pirate Bay made its name as the site to go to if you want to ...

A cryptocurrency miner surfaced on The Pirate Bay for a day over the weekend. A cryptocurrency miner surfaced on the world’s largest torrenting site for a day over the weekend, raising the ire of ...

The Pirate Bay gave no warning to users before running a 'test' that embedded JavaScript to run a cryptocurrency miner that hogged CPU resources. For once, the Motion Picture Association of America ...

Security researchers are concerned about the rise of cryptocurrency miners that are being embedded into websites and apps to use a device's resources without gaining permission. Security firm Trend ...

A recent uptick in the use of silent cryptocurrency miner attacks that unsuspectingly exploit a users' CPU cycles to mine Monero has shown that everyone from Pirate Bay browsers to Showtime customers ...

Before we go further, it is important to note that this is just a proof of concept and to even use custom functions in Excel, you first need to be using the Office Insider version of Excel and to ...