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Title: Google axes popular Chrome extension for secretly mining cryptocurrency
Post by: Redaktion on January 03, 2018, 05:10:58
Google has pulled Archive Poster from the Chrome Web Store. The Chrome browser extension was caught secretly mining cryptocurrency in the background whenever Chrome was open on an affected user's PC.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Google-axes-popular-Chrome-extension-for-secretly-mining-cryptocurrency.275806.0.html