Cloudflare Suspends Torrent Website for Cryptocurrency Miner 'Malware'
Next Topic > Disadvantages Of Torrents And How You Can Workaround It Internet domain supplier Cloudflare has begun to split down online running concealed cryptocurrency miners. The news headlines came to light yesterday, when the operator of torrent site ProxyBunker told news website Torrent Freak that Cloudflare had moved to eliminate all its relevant domains credited to a miner hiding in the website's code. A website to other torrent sites, ProxyBunker have been working the "Coinhive" monero miner for four times before the suspension. Justin Paine, mind of trust and security at Cloudflare, reportedly told ProxyBunker that your choice was taken because the miner was operating in key, without option for people to disable the code, and was considered "malware thus." Paine was quoted as saying: "Multiple domains in your account were injecting Coinhive mining code without notifying users. ... We consider this to be malware, and as such the...