Microsoft Tweeted, “We found a malicious HTML file posing as a Kobe Bryant wallpaper that contains a coin mining script.”
The Daily Hodl goes on to explain, “Microsoft says its Windows Defender security system will automatically detect the malware when a user visits the website where the images can be downloaded.”
They go on to block and to find if a website is utilizing crypto scripts, “One great way is to use Wappalyzer, a handy tool used by Ahrefs that can detect various types of technologies deployed on websites, including 14 of the most popular mining scripts like Coinhive, Crypto-Loot, Cloudcoins, Coinlab, deepMiner and Monerominer. To prevent sites from stealing your computing power, Ahrefs recommends installing browser extensions like minerBlock or No Coin. These plugins specifically block crypto mining malware scripts from running on the sites you visit.”
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