Archive Poster
This is a Google chrome extension used in chrytojacking your CPU without your knowledge.
The trend of mining cryptocurrency hasn’t gone unnoticed by the notorious minds.
This technique to use CPU power to earn digital coins has been repeatedly used by malware creators as well as the website owners who chose to keep their users in the dark. In the latest development, a popular Chrome extension has been spotted as a new player in this game.
Named Archive Poster, this extension has more than 100,000 users. For the past few weeks, the extension has been deploying an in-browser cryptocurrency miner without showing the users any form of notification or asking for their permission.
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