MineThrottle: Defending against Wasm In-Browser Cryptojacking Article Swipe

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Weikang Bian , Wei Meng , Mingxue Zhang ·

YOU? · · 2020 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3366423.3380085 · OA: W3012849786

In-browser cryptojacking is an urgent threat to web users, where an attacker abuses the users' computing resources without obtaining their consent. In-browser mining programs are usually developed in WebAssembly (Wasm) for its great performance. Several prior works have measured cryptojacking in the wild and proposed detection methods using static features and dynamic features. However, there exists no good defense mechanism within the user's browser to stop the malicious drive-by mining behavior.