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CRYPTOJACKING

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Although 2017 will be Marked in history as the year in which bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies rose exponentially but this year hackers also devised a new technique Called CRYTOJACKING.  As cryptocurrencies(Bitcoin,ethereum,monero,litecoin etc) are something that are not controlled by any central authority but they are mined and to get these cryptos. Miners of these currencies were supposed to solved CRYPTOGRAPHIC PUZZLES and these puzzles are very tough and require significant amount of computational power and  getting a high end system to mine cryptos is not in everybody's reach .SO Hackers And Scammers have found a way to use computers and mobiles for their greed. They Devised CRYPTOJACKING  in this technique when a user visits any fraud website that website along with providing you data you require will also attach JAVASCRIPT code with that site and as Javscript does not require any browser permission(In most browsers) to run .These scripts run in Ba...