Pirate Bay hits users’ CPUs with secret cryptocurrency mining

World infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay should probably have told its visitors it planned to use their browsers for mining cryptocurrency, but pirates don’t make a living by asking first. Signs something was afoot surfaced on Reddit last Saturday, where users started complaining about extremely high CPU utilisation when they loaded certain pages.

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