{"id":254493,"date":"2018-04-03T09:52:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=254493"},"modified":"2018-04-03T09:54:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:54:33","slug":"chrome-fights-back-against-cryptocurrency-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/254493-chrome-fights-back-against-cryptocurrency-mining.html","title":{"rendered":"Chrome fights back against cryptocurrency mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chrome Web Store <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chromium.org\/2018\/04\/protecting-users-from-extension-cryptojacking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>will no longer accept extensions<\/strong><\/a> that mine cryptocurrency, due to the rise in malicious extensions.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome said there has been a rise in malicious extensions that appear to provide useful functionality, but embed hidden cryptocurrency mining scripts.<\/p>\n<p>These scripts run in the background without the user\u2019s consent and consume significant CPU resources.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome Web Store previously permitted cryptocurrency mining in extensions, as long as this was the extension\u2019s only defined purpose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, approximately 90% of all extensions with mining scripts have failed to comply with these policies,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p>Existing extensions that mine cryptocurrency will be delisted from the Chrome Web Store in June, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Extensions with blockchain-related purposes other than mining will continue to be permitted in the store.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/250067-forget-chrome-incognito-this-is-real-private-browsing.html\">Forget Chrome Incognito \u2013 This is real private browsing<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few months, there has been a rise in malicious extensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":217834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1567],"class_list":["post-254493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-chrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254517,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254493\/revisions\/254517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}