Beware! - Your Computer could be mining Cryptocurrencies for hackers

Crypto Jacking is one of the biggest threats on the Internet today. Simply, crypto jacking is the use of some online tricks or tools to steal your computer's hardware resources and use them for mining cryptocurrencies. The result is that you pay the electricity bill, you use the computer, you have to endure a lot of difficulties due to the slow computer at work, but crypto currency hackers are making money by utilizing your resources.

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How do you know if your computer has been hacked & making money for hackers?

1st way

Symptoms of cryptocurrency Jacking which includes

Overheating
Overcrowding
Slowing down the computer

2nd way

Look at the use of CPU from the Windows Main Task Manager and from the Activity Monitor in Mac. Try to make sure that your system is not being overused.

And If you see that CPU is being used a lot in Task Manager, understand that you are a victim of crypto jacking. Remember that twenty to twenty-five percent CPU usage is a matter of routine.

NOTE: Many websites also hide cryptocurrency scripts in their source code, so when you visit such websites, the browser will continue to do cryptocurrency mining using your system resources and you will have the problem of slow browsing.

These were just simple ways or tricks to check if your computer has been hacked & making money for hackers.

In the next post, I will provide you some more better solutions like some extensions which will not allow any kind of mining on your computer.

Hope you people have got the knowledge and enjoyed reading as much as I did in writing.

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