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Crypto-jacking

A technique used by hackers or shady site operators, that uses the computing power of third parties to mine cryptocurrency, without obtaining their consent.

Usually, this happens on computers infected with mallware or similar exploits. But some websites also do this to visitors of their sites ... which results in sudden loss of performance, when visiting such sites.


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