The JavaScript miner runs inside the app's built-in browser but it gives no indication to the user that the miner is running.

Within hours, security researcher Chase Dardaman figured out a way to use Microsoft's new feature to load the CoinHive in-browser miner through a custom JavaScript Excel function.

Reports are that Pirate Bay has added a Javascript-powered Monero CryptoNote miner to its website. The specific Monero mining software that has been added to the site is Coinhive.

The Pirate Bay surprised many of its users when it quietly added a JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miner to its website.

In addition to Coinhive impacting more than one in five organizations, JSEcoin (a JavaScript miner that can be embedded in websites) was in fifth place and Cryptoloot (which targets PCs) was in ninth.

Researchers say cyrptojackers are bypassing ad-blocking software in an attempt to run in-browser cyrptocurrency miner Coinhive.

Is Google Drive the new 'Pirate Bay'? And that’s exactly what Pirate Bay tried to do when it embedded a Javascript cryptocurrency miner to its site.

Cloudflare said the use of a hidden embedded cryptocurrency miner on websites is malware.

The news comes in a report from Torrent Freak who have discovered a cyptocurrency miner from Coinhive on the site. The use of the miner has now also be confirmed by the Pirate Bay.

The Coinhive cryptomining mining service which was designed to offer web developers a JavaScript-based Monero miner announced that it will discontinue its services on March 8, 2019.