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.

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

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.

Coinhive’s JavaScript miner software is often used by hackers, who secretly embed the code into websites and then mine Monero currency by tapping the CPU processing power of site visitors ...

The JavaScript code is a modified version of MineCrunch (also known as Web Miner), a script released in 2014 that can mine cryptocurrencies using JavaScript code executed inside the browser.