7 Dec
2017
7 Dec
'17
12:44 p.m.
On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 12:23 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
After looking at this I'm amazed at how directly it's linked to eBay, I sort of thought it was eBay before but now I can just switch the heavy CPU usage on and off by opening and closing a single eBay tab.
eBay compromised by a bitcoin miner?
https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/10/unit42-unauthorized-coin...
It's relatively straightforward to compromise an advert exchange to deliver malware instead of advertising.
Or it could just be shitty JS. Something "busy waiting", perhaps? Have you tried running eBay with "NoScript" installed? (Will it even woirk? Dunno.)
BTW, I've had similar problems with The Daily Telegraph in the last few days.
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