W henever we think about web threats, issues like malware, hacking and pornography are probably the first to pop into our heads, but cyberspace is witnessing one new web menace that is quickly gaining international attention, “Crypto Jacking”. It involves the secret use of your computing device to mine crypto-cash. Anyone casually using the internet at home can be unwittingly functioning as a proxy member of a hacker’s team. Over the past few months, there has been a frightening growth in the number of websites running scripts that silently crypto jack users’ computer resources and secretly make them mine digital currency for miscreants. Easy bucks This November, a security engineer at Threat Nix claimed on his Facebook wall that OnlineKhabar, the fifth most-viewed webpage in Nepal had a script of ‘Coin Hive’ running in the background which is used to secretly takeover users’ computer resources to mine crypto-currency. After this revelation, OnlineKhabar conf...